Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel lyrics

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Heading down south to the land of the pines

I’m thumbing my way to north carolina

Staring at the road and pray to god I see headlights

I made it down the coast in 17 hours

Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers

And I’m a hoping for raleigh, I can see my baby tonight

[Chorus]

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey, mama rock me

Rock me mama like the wind bend 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 the 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 turning back to livin' that ole life no more

[Chorus]

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey, mama rock me

Rock me mama like the wind bend the rain

Rock me mama like a south bound train

Hey, mama rock me

Walking through 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

and 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

[Chorus] x2

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey, mama rock me

Rock me mama like the wind bend the rain

Rock me mama like a south bound train

Hey, mama rock me.

Thanks to Nora Knox for correcting these lyrics