Key: :[C] (w: Bob Dylan, Ketch Secor) (o: Old Crow Medicine Show, 2004) (Nathan Carter, 2012) (BPM: 148)
INTRO:
[C] [G] [Am] [F] /
[C] [G] [Am] [F] /
[C] [G] [F]
VERSE 1:
[C] Heading down south to the
[G] land of the pines
[Am] I'm thumbing my way into
[F] North Caroline
[C] Staring up the road and
[G] pray to God I see
[F] headlights
[C] I made it down the coast in
[G] seventeen hours
[Am] Picking me a bouquet of
[F] dogwood flowers
And I'm a-
[C]-hopin' for Raleigh, I can
[G] see my baby to-
[F]-night
CHORUS:
So
[C] rock me momma like a
[G] wagon wheel
[Am] Rock me momma any
[F] way you feel
[C] Hey,
[G] momma
[F] rock me
[C] Rock me momma like the
[G] wind and the rain
[Am] Rock me momma like a
[F] south bound train
[C] Hey,
[G] momma
[F] rock me
BREAK: [C] [G] [Am] [F] /
[C] [G] [F]
VERSE 2:
[C] Running from the cold
[G] up in New England
I was
[Am] born to be a fiddler in an
[F] old time string band
My
[C] baby plays a guitar,
[G] I pick a banjo
[F] now
Oh,
[C] north country winters keep a-
[G] getting me down
I lost my
[Am] money playing poker so I
[F] had to leave town
But I
[C] ain't turning back to
[G] living that old life
[F] no more
REPEAT CHORUS:
BREAK: [over CHORUS]
VERSE 3:
[C] Walkin' to the south
[G] out of Roanoke
I caught a
[Am] trucker out of Philly had a
[F] nice long toke
But
[C] he's a heading west from the
[G] Cumberland gap, to
[F] Johnson City, Tennessee
And I
[C] gotta get a move on
[G] before the sun
I hear my
[Am] baby calling my name and I
[F] know that she's the only one
And
[C] if I died in Raleigh at
[G] least I will die
[F] free
REPEAT CHORUS: (one strum each chord)
REPEAT CHORUS:
OUTRO: [over CHORUS]
