Capo 1
[Intro] 
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[Verse 1]
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 a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight

[Chorus]
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

[Instrumental] 
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C
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[Verse 2]
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 a-getting me down
I lost my money playing poker so I had to leave town
But I ain't turning back to living that old life no more

[Chorus]
[Instrumental] 
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[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus] (Single strum)
[Chorus] (Normal)

[Outro] 
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C
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< 2 0 0 2 3 2 >
 
  
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