VERS 1:
G                         D
Heading down south to the land of the pines
    Em                   C
I'm thumbing my way into North Carolina
        G                       D         C
Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights
  G                         D
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
         Em                     C
Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
          G                         D             C
And I'm a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight


REFRENG:
   G                    D
So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Em                C
Rock me momma any way you feel
G    D        C
Hey     momma rock me
G                      D
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Em                   C
Rock me momma like a south bound train
G    D       C
Hey    momma rock me



VERS 2:
Running from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band
My baby plays a guitar, I pick a banjo now
Oh, north country winters keep a-getting me down
Lost my money playing poker so I had to leave town
But I ain't turning back to living that old life no more


[Refreng]



VERS 3:
Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke
I caught a trucker out of Philly had a nice long toke
But he's a-heading west from the Cumberland gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee
I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby calling my name and I know that she's the only one
And if I die in Raleigh at least I will die free


[Refreng] x 2