Headed down south to the land of the pines

Thumbin' my way into North Carolina

Starin' up the road

Pray to God I see headlights

I made it down the coast in seventeen hours

Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers

And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh

So I can see my baby tonight

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey mama rock me

Yeah

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me mama like a southbound train

Hey mama rock me

I was runnin' from the cold up in New England

I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band

My baby plays the guitar

I pick a banjo now

Oh these north country winters are keep get me down

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 more

Hey

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey mama rock me

Yeah

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me mama like a southbound train

Hey mama rock me

I was walk to the south out of Roanoke

I caught a trucker out of Philly

Had a nice long toke

But he's headin' west from the Cumberland Gap

To Johnson City Tennessee

I gotta get a move on before the sun

I hear my baby call my name

And she's the only one

And if I die in Raleigh

At least I will be free

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey mama rock me

Yeah

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me mama like a southbound train

Hey mama rock me

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey