Wagon Wheel

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)