D         C          

And pray to God I see headlights

        G                         D               

I made it down the coast in seventeen hours

  Em                      C               

Pickin" me a bouquet of dogwood flowers

            G                  

And I"m a hopin" for Raleigh

        D           C       

I can see my baby tonight

         G                    D           

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

  Em           C               

Rock me mama anyway you feel

  G    D    C       

Hey, mama rock me

  G                     D                 

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain

  Em                  C                 

Rock me mama like a south-bound train

  G    D    C       

Hey, mama rock me     

G D Em C      

G D C                                                  

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                                          

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain                                        

Rock me mama like a south-bound train                    

Hey, mama rock me     

G D Em C      

G D C

       2x     

G                    D              

Walkin" to the south out of Roanoke

             Em                    

I caught a trucker out of Philly

        C              

Had a nice long toke

      G                           D              

But he"s a headed west from the Cumberland Gap

     C                       

To Johnson City, Tennessee

            G                   D               

And I gotta get a move on fit for the sun

            Em                   

I hear my baby callin" my name

        C                            

And I know that she"s the only one

      G                   

And if I die in Raleigh

     D                C    

At least I will die free

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

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