C                             G
Well the road maps of West Texas never gave me good advice
    G                                               C
The trains all roll where the roads don't go, now I lay awake at night
     C                                G
Just wondering where the rest is so I hit that iron gate
      G                                       F              C
And I yelled good-bye to that wife of mine, I may be running late

[Chorus]
              G                 C
I'm a-rolling on, I'm a-rolling on
                  G                      C
Rolling out past El Paso Texas, where I might have had a home
  F               C
I made my bed, so here I lie
G                      F               C
I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye

[Verse]
         C                          G
Though I felt a lonesome feeling in Dulce, New Mexico
      G                             C
I was happier than I'd ever been in my El Paso home
      C                              G
But I thought about the woman whom I left to roam the land
      G                               F            C
And I cried so much it dug a rut they call the Rio Grande

[Chorus]
              G                 C
I'm a-rolling on, I'm a-rolling on
                 G                      C
Rolling out past El Paso Texas, where I might have had a home
  F               C
I made my bed, so here I lie
G                      F               C
I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye

[Solo]
F F C C
F F C G

[Bridge]
       G                              C
And my destination is written upon my feet
        G                              C
And the stars above are about the only company I keep
   C                 F
So raise my pass and take my seat
G                       F              G
I'm rolling fast with a teardrop on my cheek

[Verse]
     C                                 G
So I guess there'll be no family, so I guess there'll be no wife
      G                                    C
Gonna roll away on an old steel dray, it's gonna be my life
        C                                 G
And the road maps I been reading, I never came to figure out
G                            F         C
All I know is I'd explode by any other route

[Chorus]
              G                 C
I'm a-rolling on, I'm a-rolling on
                 G                      C
Rolling out past El Paso Texas, where I might have had a home
  F               C
I made my bed, so here I lie
G                      F               C
I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye


              G                 C
I'm a-rolling on, I'm a-rolling on
                 G                      C
Rolling out past El Paso Texas, where I might have had a home
  F               C
I made my bed, so here I lie
G                      F               C
I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye
    G                      F               C
And I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye
    G                      F               C
And I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye