Freightliner Fever

[Verso 1]
 
G                                D                     G 
I drive a big Freightliner and I make a last payment today 
      A7                                           D 
and I drive to all points out of New York City to LA 
          G 
Well that little woman smiles when I pack up to leave her 
     C 
I'll soon be back but I just got the fever 
        G         D                      G 
She's a believer, I got the Freightliner fever 
 


[Verso 2]
 
                                    D                    G 
There's a railroad a-runnin' by the highway out in Santa Fe 
      A7                                                     D 
And I passed an old freight train a-makin' his run the other day 
      G 
Merle Haggard said to his fireman, so pale 
       C 
He's a-blowin' this-a freight train off of the rail 
            G             D                         G 
He got the fever (Fever). He's got the Freightliner fever 
 


[Verso 3]
 
     C                                                      G 
Webb Pierce said, "Red, what you carryin' in that cigarette pack?" 
           A7                                                      D 
I said, "I got my second driver, and he's gonna drive all the way back" 
       G 
It's a big black pill, so long and round 
     C 
To a driver it's a west coast turnaround 
             G              D                    G 
It's for the fever (Fever). The ol' Freightliner fever 


{Instrumental Break} 
G D E 
 

[Verso 4]
 
        A                        E                     A 
Well, I passed Dave Dudley up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
                                                E 
And I passed Del Reeves down in Shreveport, Louisiana 
     A7 
Dick Curless got a-hung on a hill up in Maine 
  D 
I pulled him on over with my forty-foot chain 
           A              E                         A 
He got the fever (Fever). He's got the Freightliner fever 
 


[Verso 5]
 
         A                         E                    A 
I been a-passin' everything from a Jimmy to a Greyhound bus 
                                                            E 
I'm gonna spend a few days out on the West Coast to end-a my run 
        A7 
And old giddy-up-go, and a little bit of luck 
               D 
I'm gonna pass Red Simpson in his runaway truck 
             A              E                         A 
He's got the fever (Fever). He's got the Freightliner fever 
 


[Verso 6]
 
     D                                                      A 
Webb Pierce said, "Red, what you carryin' in that cigarette pack?" 
                                                                E 
I said, "I got my second driver and he's gonna drive all the way back" 
       A7 
It's a big black pill, so long and round 
     D 
To a driver, it's a west coast turnaround 
             A              E                     A 
It's for the fever (Fever). That ol' Freightliner fever 
 


[Verso 7]
 
A                                                       E 
Aw, out on this road you pass a lot of them old country boys 
       A 
I seen Carl Smith, Charley Pride, Ernest Tubb, Bill Monroe 
E              A 
Conway Twitty, Waylon Jennings. 
                         A             E             A 
Seen Dave Dudley, George Jones, Porter Wagoner, Bill Anderson 

Faron Young, Stonewall Jackson, Roy Acuff