Wagon Wheel (2015 Version)

Heading down South to the land of the pines

Thumbing my way down to North Caroline

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 hoping for Raleigh

So I can see my baby tonight

So, rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey, hey, yeah, mama rock me

Hey, rock me mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me mama like a southbound train

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 the guitar

I pick the Banjo now

Oh, the North country winters keep getting me down

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

But I ain't turning back to live that old life no more

So, rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

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

I was walking to the South, out of Roanoke

Caught a trucker out of Philly

Had a nice long toke

But he's a heading West from the Cumberland Gap

To Johnson City, Tennessee

I gotta get a move on before the sun

I hear my baby calling my name

She's the only one

And if I die in Raleigh

At least I will be free

So, rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey, hey, yeah, mama rock me

Hey, rock me mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me mama like a southbound train

Hey, hey, yeah, mama rock me