Wagon Wheel (Rock Me Mama Like a)
Ketch Secor, Bob Dylan, 2003· Songs Well-Known in America · p.353
Intro: G D Em C G D C C
G D
Headed down south to the land of the pines
Em C
I'm thumbing my way into North Caroline
G D C
Staring down the road and I pray to God I see headlights
G D
I made down the coast in seventeen hours
Em C
picking me a bouquet of dog wood flowers and I'm
G D C
Hoping for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight
Chorus:
G D Em C
Rock me mama like a wagon wheel, Rock me mama any way you feel
G D C
Hey, mama rock me
G D Em C
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain, Rock me mama like a south bound
train
GD C
Hey, mama rock me
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 now
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 (Chorus)
Walking to the south out of Roanoke
I caught a trucker out of Philly had a nice long toke
but he's headed west from the Cumberland gap; Johnson city, Tennessee
I gotta get a move on fit for the sun I hear my baby calling my name
and I know she's the only one and if I die in Raleigh at least I will die free (Chorus)