Standard (EADGBE)

Headed down south to the land of the pines

Thumbin' my way into North Caroline

Starin' at the road

pray to God I see headlights

I made it down the coast in seventeen hours

Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers

And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh

I can see my baby tonight

[one strum per chord]

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

[resume strumming]

Hey, mama rock me

Well,Rock me mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me mama like a south-bound train

Hey, mama rock me

Well runnin' from the cold up in New England

I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time stringband

My baby plays the guitar

I pick a banjo now

Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin' me now

Lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave

But I ain't a turnin' back

To livin' that old life no more

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey, mama rock me

Well rock me mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me mama like a south-bound train

Hey, mama rock me

[single strum for each chord]

Well walkin' to the 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

[resume regular strum]

To Johnson City, Tennessee

And I gotta get a move on head for the sun

I hear my baby callin' runnin'

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 anyway you feel

Hey, mama rock me

Well rock me mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me mama like a south-bound train

Hey, mama rock me

[single strum again]

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey, mama rock me

Well rock me mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me mama like a south-bound train

Hey, mama rock me