C                        G

 Headed down south to the land of the pine


  Am                    F
 
 Thumbing my way into North Caroline


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 Staring down the road, pray to god I see head lights


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Made it down the coat in seventeen hours, picking me a bouquet of dogwood 


flowers

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Hoping for Raleigh I can see my baby tonight,


Chorus

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So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Am               F

Rock me mama any way you feel

C G      F

Hey mama rock me


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Rock me mama like the wind and the rain, rock me mama like a south bound 

train

C G      F

Hey mama rock me  


C G Am F C G F



Running from the cold up in New England 
I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band
My baby picks the guitar, I play the banjo now
Oh north country winters keep a getting me down lost all 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 met a trucker out a Philly had a nice long toke,
But he's headed west to the Cumberland Gap,
to Johnson city, Tennessee 
and now I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby calling my name and I know that he's the only one
but if I die in Raleigh at least I will die free