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