Capo 5th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

There’s a coal minin’ town

Where the sun never sleeps

It’s cold in Alaska

Her tears freeze to her cheeks

And there’s an old man that loves her

He’s comin’ home, life or death.

Two months drug by

Since the day he first left

He can still hear goodbye

He can still see her breath

In that cracked sideview mirror

That he swore he’d fix last time

Thirty miles from home

Dogs bark and red lights flash

I love Marie, still tattooed on the dash

Of that jackknifed freightliner,

Phone rings, 2 AM

Chorus

Hail to you, you’re the king of the highway now x 2

That frozen hell it took him

And he ain’t coming back

But her memory’s still thick

Like this ice that never cracks

It’s damn cold in Alaska

And that sun never sleeps

She’s got his old CB box

She yells - “breaker, breaker 10”

Won’t you honk if you see the ghost of that truck drivin’ man

And please tell him that I love him, and tell him this

Chorus