Wagon Wheel

Headed down south to the land of the pines
I’m thumbin’ my way into North Caroline

Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights

I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers

And I’m a-hopin’ for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight

Chorus

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama any way you feel

Hey, mama rock me

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a southbound train

Hey, mama rock me

Running from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band

My baby plays the guitar, I pick a banjo now

Oh, the North country winters keep a-gettin’ me down
Lost my money playin’ poker so I had to up and leave

But I ain’t a-turnin’ back to livin’ that old life no more

Chorus

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama any way you feel

Hey, mama rock me

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a southbound train

Hey, mama rock me

Walkin’ to the south out of Roanoke
I caught a trucker out of Philly, had a nice long toke

But he’s a-headed west from the Cumberland Gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee

I gotta move on before the sun
I hear my baby callin’ my name and I know that she’s the only one

And if I die in Raleigh at least I will die free

Chorus

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama any way you feel

Hey, mama rock me

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a southbound train

Hey, mama rock me