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E5Papa drove a truck nearly all his life

You know it A7drove mama crazy being a trucker’s wife

The B7part she couldn’t handle was the being alone

I guess she Cneeded more to hold than just a B7telephone

E5Papa called Mama each and every night

Just to A7ask her how she was and if us kids were alright

B7Mama would wait for that call to come in

And when CDaddy’d hang up she was B7gone a E7gain

A7Mama was a looker lord how she shined

E7Papa was a good’n but the jealous kind

A7Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men

E7Mama’s in the graveyard B7Papa’s in the E5pen

E5Well it was bound to happen and one night it did

A7Papa came home and it was just us kids

He had a B7dozen roses and a bottle of wine

If he was Clookin’ to surprise us he was B7doin’ fine

E5I heard him cry for Mama up and down the hall

Then I A7heard a bottle break against the bedroom wall

That B7old diesel engine made an eerie sound

When Papa Cfired it up and headed B7into E7town

Well the A7picture in the paper showed the scene real well

E7Papa’s rig was buried in the local motel

The A7desk clerk said he saw it all real clear

After this line go right into the little riff

He never E7hit the brakes and he was B7shifting E5gears

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A7Mama was a looker lord how she shined

E7Papa was a good’n but the jealous kind

A7Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men

E7Mama’s in the graveyard B7Papa’s in the E5pen

Solo, and fade on:

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