Wagon Wheel

Old Crow Medicine Show

Written by Bob Dylan, Ketch Secor

Key of G · Chords: I IV V vi

Verse 1

G                         D
Headin' down south to the land of the pines
Em                       C
I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
G                               D         C
Starin' up the road 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                                   D             C
And I'm a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight

Chorus

G                       D
So, rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Em               C
Rock me mama any way 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 southbound train
G      D         C
Hey... mama rock me

Verse 2

G                           D
Runnin' from the cold up in New England
Em                               C
I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band
G                         D            C
My baby plays a guitar, I pick a banjo now
G                                D
Oh, north country winters keep a-gettin' me down
Em                                C
Lost my money playin' poker, so I had to leave town
G                             D                       C
But I ain't a-turnin' back to livin' that old life no more

(Chorus)

Verse 3

G                           D
Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke
Em                                      C
I caught a trucker out of Philly, had a nice long toke
G                                D          C
But he's a-headin' west from the Cumberland Gap
G                D
To Johnson City, Tennessee
Em                          C
And I gotta get a move on before the sun
G                                    D                        C
I hear my baby callin' my name and I know that she's the only one
G                            D                C
And if I died in Raleigh, at least I will die free