Heading down south to
the land of the pines
I'm thumbing my way into
North Caroline
Staring up the road and pray
to God I see headlights
I made it down the coast in
seventeen hours
Picking me a bouquet
of dogwood flowers
And I'm ahopin' for Raleigh
I can see my baby tonight
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 rock me
I 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 agetting 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
So rock me momma
like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma
any way you feel
Hey momma rock me
Hey rock me momma
like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma
like a south bound train
Hey momma rock me
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
And 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 died in Raleigh
at least I will die free
So rock me momma
like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma
any way you feel
Hey momma rock me
Oh rock me momma
like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma
like a south bound train
Hey hey momma rock me
Ohh...
So rock me momma
like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma
any way you feel
Hey momma rock me
(momma rock me
momma rock me)
Rock me momma
like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma
like a south bound train
Hey momma rock me
rock me
rock me...
