WAGON WHEEL
Co-Written by 
Co-Written by 
Performed by: 

Bob Dylan (Cho
Ketch Secor (V
Old Crow Medic

rus & Melody) in 1973 - from "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" tapes.
erse)
ine Show

It uses the I–V–vi–IV pattern in the key of A major, with the main chord pattern of A–E–F♯m–D.

Bob Dylan incomplete version:  https://youtu.be/VNTsYfjBcuQ
Old Crow Medicine Show version:  https://youtu.be/1gX1EP6mG-E

Capo 2nd fret

[Intro]
      
    
      
    

[Verse 1]
             
Headed down so

           
uth to the lan

d of the pines
            
And I'm thumbi

              
n' my way into

 
 North Carolin

e

Starin' up the

 road
             
And pray to Go

        
d I see headli

ghts
             
I made it down

              
 the coast in 


seventeen hour

s
            
Pickin' me a b

          
ouquet of dogw

ood flowers
          
And I'm a hopi

n' for Raleigh
             
I can see my b

      
aby tonight

[Chorus]
             
So rock me mam

         
a like a wagon

 wheel
            
Rock me mama a

  
nyway you feel
        
Hey, mama rock

 me
             
Rock me mama l

        
ike the wind a

nd the rain
            
Rock me mama l

      
ike a south-bo

und train
        
Hey, mama rock

 me

[Instrumental]
      
    

[Verse 2]
             
Runnin' from t

        
he cold up in 

New England
            
I was born to 

              
be a fiddler i

     
n an old-time 

stringband
   
My baby plays 

the guitar
             
I pick a banjo

 
 now
             
Oh, the North 

              
country winter

         
s keep a getti

n' 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 m

ore

[Chorus]
             
So rock me mam

         
a like a wagon

 wheel
            
Rock me mama a

  
nyway you feel
        
Hey, mama rock

 me
             
Rock me mama l

        
ike the wind a

nd the rain
            
Rock me mama l

      
ike a south-bo

und train
        
Hey, mama rock

 me

[Instrumental]
      
    
      
    

[Verse 3]
             
Walkin' to the

       
 south out of 

Roanoke
           
I caught a tru

cker out of Ph

illy
      
Had a nice lon

g toke
             
But he's a hea

              
ded west from 

    
the Cumberland

 Gap
   
To Johnson Cit

y, Tennessee
             
And I gotta ge

            
t a move on be

fore the sun
          
I hear my baby

 callin' my na

me
      
And I know tha

t she's the on

ly one
    
And if I die i

n Raleigh
             
At least I wil

      
l die free

[Chorus]
             
So rock me mam

         
a like a wagon

 wheel
            
Rock me mama a

  
nyway you feel
        
Hey, mama rock

 me
             
Rock me mama l

        
ike the wind a

nd the rain
            
Rock me mama l

      
ike a south-bo

und train
           
Hey, mama rock

        
 me