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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 play the 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 leave that old 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 talk
But he’s a heading west from a cumberland gap
To johnson city, tennesse
I got, I gotta 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.