Darius Rucker   "Wagon Wheel"
[No capo needed.]

[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]
(no chords)
N.C,
So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey,  momma rock me
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
              
Hey,  momma ro

       
ck me
             
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