Wagon Wheel

Chords

Standard

A                         E
Headed down south to the land of the pines
            F#m              D
And I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
A                   
Starin' up the road
E                  D
Pray to God I see headlights

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

   A                  E
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
F#m               D
Rock me mama any way you feel
A     E         D
Hey mama rock me
A                      E
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
F#m                 D
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
A      E       D
Hey mama rock me

# Repeat pattern for the rest of the song:

Runnin' from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time stringband
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 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

Walkin' to the 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 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