Wagon Wheel

Headin' down South to the land of the pines

I'm thumbin' my way into North Carolina

Starin' up the road and 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, 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

A-runnin' 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 a banjo now

Oh, North country winters keep a-gettin' me down

Lost my money playin' poker, so I had to leave town

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, any way you feel

Hey, mama, rock me

Yeah, 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-headin' West from the Cumberland Gap

To Johnson City, Tennessee

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, any way you feel

Hey, mama, rock me

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

Rock me, mama, like a Southbound train

Hey, hey mama, rock me (Hey, hey, mama, rock me)

Oh, so rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel

Rock me, mama, any way you feel (Oh, I wanna feel)

Hey, hey, mama, rock, mama, rock me, mama, rock me

Rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain

Rock me, mama, like a Southbound train (I wanna rock like a Southbound train)

Hey, yeah, oh, mama, rock me

You better rock me

Rock me