• Song:

    Truckdriver

  • Artist:

    Kate Reid

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
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