Wagon Wheel

This is a great song by a great 
young band with that old time 
stringband sound.
The song is real simple to play.
It just has two patterns that 
alternate all throughout the song.

CAPO 2

Intro:
G, D, Em, C
G, D, C  (2x)

Verse 1

G                        D
Headed down south to the land of the
 pines
        Em                   C
And I'm thumbin' my way into North 
Caroline
G
Starin' up the road
    D                 C
And pray to God I see headlights

  G                        
I made it down the coast in 
 D
seventeen hours
Em                      C
Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood 
flowers
          G
And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh
      D             C
I can see my baby tonight



Refrão -------------
   G                   D
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Em              C
Rock me mama anyway you feel
G  D     C
Hey mama rock me
G                     D
Rock me mama like the wind and the 
rain
Em                  C
Rock me mama like a south-bound 
train
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G  D     C
Hey mama rock me

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Verse 2

G                     D
Runnin' from the cold up in New 
England
      Em                        
I was born to be a fiddler in an 
 C
old-time stringband
   G                    D
My baby plays the guitar
               C
I pick a banjo now

        G                          
Oh, the North country winters keep 
  D
a gettin' me now
        Em                       C
Lost my money playin' poker so I had
 to up and leave
      G
But I ain't a turnin' back
   D                    C
To livin' that old life no more



Refrão -------------
   G                   D
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Em              C
Rock me mama anyway you feel
G  D     C
Hey mama rock me
G                     D
Rock me mama like the wind and the 
rain
Em                  C
Rock me mama like a south-bound 
train
G  D     C
Hey mama rock me

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Verse 3 (just strum once for the 
first part of the verse)

G                    D
Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke
           Em
I caught a trucker out of Philly
      C
Had a nice long toke
    G                          
But he's a headed west from the 
 D
Cumberland Gap
   C
To Johnson City, Tennessee

      G                   D
And I gotta get a move on fit for 
the sun
          Em
I hear my baby callin' my name
      C
And I know that she's the only one
    G
And if I die in Raleigh
   D                C
At least I will die free



Refrão -------------
   G                   D
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Em              C
Rock me mama anyway you feel
G  D     C
Hey mama rock me
G                     D
Rock me mama like the wind and the 
rain
Em                  C
Rock me mama like a south-bound 
train
G  D     C
Hey mama rock me

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