Wagon Wheel

Headed down south to the land of the pines

Thumbin' my way on to North Caroline

Was staring up the road, 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, so I can see my baby tonight

So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama any way you feel

Ah-hey, hey yeah, mama, rock me

Yeah, rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain

Rock me, mama, like a southbound train

Ah-hey, hey yeah, mama, rock me

I was running from the cold up in New England

I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band

My baby plays a guitar, I pick the banjo now

Oh, the north country winters keep a-gettin' me down

I lost my money playing poker so I had to up and leave

But I ain't turnin' back to live that old life no more, hey

So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama any way you feel

Ah-hey, yeah yeah, mama, rock me

Yeah, rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain

Rock me, mama, like a southbound train

Ah-hey, yeah yeah, mama, rock me

I was walking to the south out of Roanoke

I caught a trucker out of Philly, had a nice long toke

But he's a-headin' west from the Cumberland Gap

To Johnson City, Tennessee

I gotta get a move on before the sun

I hear my baby call my name, she's the only one

And if I die in Raleigh, at least I will be free, yeah

So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama any way you feel

Ah-yeah, hey yeah, mama, rock me

Yeah, rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama any way you feel

Ah-hey, hey yeah, mama, rock me

Yeah, rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain

Rock me, mama, like a southbound train

Ah-hey, hey yeah, mama, rock me

Yeah, rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel

Rock a-me mama any way you feel

Ah-hey, hey yeah, mama, rock me

Yeah, rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain

Rock me, mama, like a southbound train

Hey, hey yeah, mama, rock me

Rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama any way you feel

Hey, hey yeah, mama, rock me