Wagon Wheel

Album: O.C.M.S. (2004)
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  • Headed down south to the land of the pines
    And I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
    Starin' up the road
    Pray to God I see headlights

    I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
    Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
    And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh
    I can see my baby tonight

    So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
    Rock me mama anyway 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

    Runnin' 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 now
    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

    So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
    Rock me mama anyway you feel
    Hey mama rock me
    Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
    Rock me mama like a south-bound train
    Hey mama rock me

    Walkin' due 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

    And I gotta get a 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

    So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
    Rock me mama anyway you feel
    Hey mama rock me
    Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
    Rock me mama like a south-bound train
    Hey mama rock me Writer/s: Bob Dylan, Ketch Secor
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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