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[Verse 1]
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I’m thankful for my family, I’m thankful for this life,
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My kids have grown up decent, due mostly to the wife.
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When you’re on the trucks out on the road and away from home so much,
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This cracklin’ old CB of mine has kept us all in touch.

[Verse 2]
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I’m thankful for the freedom and I’m thankful for my friends,
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There’s not too many good ones but the good one’s never bend.
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Been all over this old Country, every road and every run,
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And I’m thankful for this life of freedom seeing from this old truck.

[Chorus 1]
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Black road roll on forever, big wheels keep turning round.
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I’m close to God out on the road and I’m just truckin’ round.
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So don’t ever try to hobble me or I’d weather like a wheel
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You know highways are pasture where a traveller has to feed.

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[Verse 3]
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Oh, I’m thankful for this sunrise when the eastern sky’s a glow
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A thousand miles from nowhere where the desert breezes blow
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And the roaring of the diesel sings its own home coming song
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And I’m thankful for the wealth and you that waits for me back home.

[Verse 4]
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This big old iron horse of mine has muscles made of steel
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There’s diesel in those veins and I know every sound and feel
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I’ve been with trucks just all my life, a car I’ve never owned
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A car to me is just a bicycle with fancy lights and chrome.

[Chorus 2]
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Yeah, black road roll on forever big wheels keep turning round
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I’m close to God out on the road but I’m just truckin’ round
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So don’t ever try to hobble me or I’d weather like a wheel
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You know highway’s are pasture where a traveller has to feed. Oh yeah.

[Outro]
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Black road roll on forever.
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