[Intro]
      
      
    


[Verse]
             
Heading down s

             
outh to the la

nd of the pine

s
            
I'm thumbing m

            
y way into Nor

th Caroline
             
Staring up the

             
 road and pray

              
 to God I see 

  
headlights
             
I made it down

              
 the coast in 

 
seventeen hour

s
            
Picking me a b

           
ouquet of dogw

ood flowers
             
And I'm a-hopi

              
n' for Raleigh

             
, I can see my

         
 baby tonight


[Chorus]
             
So rock me mom

           
ma like a wago

n wheel
            
Rock me momma 

    
any way you fe

el
           
Hey,  momma ro

ck me
             
Rock me momma 

          
like the wind 

and the rain
            
Rock me momma 

        
like a south b

ound train
           
Hey,  momma ro

ck me


[Instrumental]
      
    


[Verse]
             
Running from t

        
he cold up in 

New England
            
I was born to 

              
be a fiddler i

     
n an old time 

string band
             
My baby plays 

             
a guitar, I pi

           
ck a banjo now
             
Oh, north coun

              
try winters ke

      
ep a-getting m

e down
            
I lost my mone

              
y playing poke

        
r so I had to 

leave town
             
But I ain't tu

              
rning back to 

             
living that ol

         
d life no more


[Chorus]
             
So rock me mom

           
ma like a wago

n wheel
            
Rock me momma 

     
any way you fe

el
           
Hey,  momma ro

ck me
             
Rock me momma 

          
like the wind 

and the rain
            
Rock me momma 

        
like a south b

ound train
           
Hey,  momma ro

ck me


[Instrumental]
      
    
      
    


[Verse]
             
Walkin' to the

        
 south out of 

Roanoke
            
I caught a tru

              
cker out of Ph

            
illy had a nic

e long toke
             
But he's a hea

              
ding west from

      
 the Cumberlan

d gap
     
To Johnson Cit

y, Tennessee
             
And I gotta ge

             
t a move on be

fore the sun
            
I hear my baby

              
 calling my na

          
me and I know 

that she's the

 only one
             
And if I died 

              
in Raleigh at 

             
least I will d

    
ie free


[Chorus] (one strum each chord below)
             
So rock me mom

          
ma like a wago

n wheel
            
Rock me momma 

     
any way you fe

el
           
Hey,  momma ro

ck me
             
Oh, rock me mo

              
mma like the w


ind and the ra

in
            
Rock me momma 

        
like a south b

ound train
           
Hey,  momma ro

ck me

(normal strumming)
             
Oh, so rock me

              
 momma like a 

 
wagon wheel
            
    Ohhhhhhhhh

     
hhh, I wanna f

eel
(Rock me momma any way you feel)
           
Hey,  momma ro

ck me
             
Rock me momma 

          
like the wind 

and the rain
            
Rock me momma 

        
like a south b

ound train
           
Hey,  momma ro

ck me

      
    
      
    
      
    
      
    

(fade out)