Capo on 2nd Fret - listen to song for timing and strum pattern. Truckdriver G5 C5 G5 C5 G5 C5 When I was a young girl, I wanted to be a truckdriver G5 C5 I wanted to drive my whole life away G5 B5 I would stop at all of the truckstops on the roadside and I?d C5 A5 Order the special with fries G5 D5 C5 Then I would get back in my truck and drive for miles and miles G5 C5 I grew up on a farm out in southern Ontario, I guess I was a lucky girl G5 C5 But our white picket fence was a bit of a joke, it was broke and it fenced me in G5 B5 Sometimes to get away I would lay myself down C5 A5 In the sweet summer hay fields at night G5 D5 I'd watch the headlights on the highway and I would C5 Dream of a better life Chorus: G5 C5 I would drive G5 C5 I would drive I got my license when I was seventeen years old, it was my freedom ticket I?d listen to rock 'n' roll on FM radio as I drove those country roads Then I?d pick up a six-pack and a couple of friends and we?d just Waste time, driving around I'd feel the wind on my face, then I'd go get drunk in a field someplace Chorus: I would drive I would drive When I was twenty-two, I finished some school, packed up and Moved out west Sitting on my roof above the city smoking hand-rolled cigarettes But there were buildings between me and who I wanted to be And they started closing in on me I got that ?gotta get me outta this place? feeling again So I got me a job stocking shelves for eight bucks an hour in A small mountain town grocery store And the women cashiers had been working there for many years or more And their husbands worked the butcher line While I tried to keep my stock in a straight line But I was biding time and besides I never was the marrying kind Bridge: D5 C5 I?m hard because I?ve had to be D5 C5 And I?m scarred from my life?s accident scenes D5 But singing taught me to feel something C5 In the midst of nothing D5 C5 It got my heart pumping and put my hands on the wheel (hands on the wheel) Chorus: I will drive I will drive G5 C5 When I was a young girl, I wanted to be a truckdriver