King of the Highway

by Truckstop Darlin?

Standard Tuning
Capo 5th fret

G	
There?s a coal minin? town

Where the sun never sleeps
Em
It?s cold in Alaska

Her tears freeze to her cheeks
	               C
And there?s an old man that loves her
			                G
He?s comin? home, life or death.

G
Two months drug by

Since the day he first left
Em
He can still hear goodbye

He can still see her breath
           C
In that cracked sideview mirror
			                 G
That he swore he?d fix last time

G
Thirty miles from home

Dogs bark and red lights flash
Em
I love Marie, still tattooed on the dash
            C
Of that jackknifed freightliner,
	               G
Phone rings, 2 AM


Chorus

D	           C				                  G
Hail to you, you?re the king of the highway now  x 2







G
That frozen hell it took him

And he ain?t coming back
Em
But her memory?s still thick

Like this ice that never cracks
	       C
It?s damn cold in Alaska
		              G
And that sun never sleeps

G
She?s got his old CB box

She yells - ?breaker, breaker 10?
Em
Won?t you honk if you see the ghost of that truck drivin? man
	         C				                          G
And please tell him that I love him, and tell him this


Chorus