Wagon Wheel

(album: Old Crow Medicine Show - 2004)

Headed 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 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 and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
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 a banjo now
Oh, the North country winters keep a getting me now
Lost my money playing poker so I had to up and leave
But I ain't a turning back
To living that old life no more

[Chorus]

Walking due 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 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]