ROLL ON BIG MAMA
(Dan Darst)


Joe Stampley - 1975


Roll on big mama
Roll on big mama, I like the way you sing
Roll on big mama, the nighttime lets her breathe

Well the feel of the wheel delivers me
From a life where I don't wanna be
And the diesel smoke with every stroke
Sings a song with a heavy note

And ramblin' is the life I chose
Sittin' here bewteen these doors
The yellow line a-keepin' time
To things that's a runnin' through my mind
Through my mind

Roll on big mama, I like the way you roll
Roll on big mama, you are my very soul

On through the snow and the drivin' rain
To the forty below in Bangor Maine
To the hundred and ten in the Texas sun
There ain't no road that we ain't run

Up through the Colorado mountain tops
Down to the desert where Reno stops
North to the green of Coeur D'Alene
There ain't no road that we ain't seen
We ain't seen

Roll on big mama, you're singin' out my song
Roll on big mama, the highway is our home
Roll on big mama

SPOKEN:
Hey, anybody got a copy on this silver roadhog
What's the smokey situation down the way, boys
Mighty fine, I'm a-comin, I'm a-comin?
Ohhh, son, we're comin'



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2020)