Headed down south to the land of the pines
And I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
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
I can see my baby tonight


So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel

Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train

Hey mama rock me

Runnin' from the cold up in New England

I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time stringband
My baby plays the guitar
I pick a banjo now

Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin' me now
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

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama 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 headed west from the###berland Gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee


And I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby callin' my name
And I know that she's the only one

And if I die in Raleigh
At least I will die free


So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me