Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel (Guitar)

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WAGON WHEEL
Co-Written by Bob Dylan (Chorus & Melody) in 1973 - from "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" tapes.
Co-Written by Ketch Secor (Verse)
Performed by: Old Crow Medicine Show
It uses the I–V–vi–IV pattern in the key of A major, with the main chord pattern of A–E–F♯m–D. Old Crow Medicine Show version: https://youtu.be/1gX1EP6mG-E [Intro] G D Em C G D C G D Em C G D C [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                         D
I made it down the coast in 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
[Chorus]
   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
[Instrumental] G D Em C G D C [Verse 2]
G                     D
Runnin' from the cold up in New England

      Em                         C
I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time stringband

   G
My baby plays the guitar

D              C
I pick a banjo now

        G                            D
Oh, the North country winters keep 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
[Chorus]
   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
[Instrumental] G D Em C G D C G D Em C G D C [Verse 3]
G                    D
Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke

           Em
I caught a trucker out of Philly

      C
Had a nice long toke

    G                           D
But he's a headed west from the Cumberland Gap

   C
To Johnson City, Tennessee

      G                   D
And I gotta get a move on before 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
[Chorus]
   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           G
Hey, mama rock me