Wagon Wheel

Album: True Believers (2013)
Charted: 15
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  • Heading down south to the land of the pines
    I'm thumbing 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

    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 south bound train
    Hey, mama rock me

    I'm 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 a banjo now
    Oh, north country winters keep a-getting me down
    Lost my money playing poker so I had to leave town
    But I ain't a-turning back to living that old life no more

    So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
    Rock me mama any way you feel
    Hey, mama rock me
    Hey, rock me mama like the wind and the rain
    Rock me mama like a south bound 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 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 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 south bound train
    Hey, mama rock me

    Oh, so rock me mama like a wagon wheel
    Rock me mama any way you feel
    Hey, hey, mama rock (mama rock me, mama rock me)
    Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
    I wanna rock like a south bound train
    Hey, yeah, yeah, mama rock me (you can rock me, rock me) Writer/s: Bob Dylan, Ketch Secor
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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