Bob Dylan/Ketch Secor - Wagon wheel

Submitted by: pxs

Original key: Bb Major

Suggested capo: 3

Helpers

Bb Major

iii

vii°

Chords used

Capo 3

Intro

G – D – Em – C – G – D – Em – C –
G – D – C –

Verse 1

G – D – Em – C – G – D – C – x2
Heading down south to the land of the pines
I'm thumbing my way into North Caroline
Staring up the road and pray the gods 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 1

G – D – Em – C – G – D – C – x2
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama any way you feel
Hey-ey, mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a southbound train
Hey-ey mama rock me

Break 1

G – D – Em – C – G – D – C –

Verse 2

G – D – Em – C – G – D – C – x2
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 2

Break 2

G – D – Em – C – G – D – C – x2

Verse 3

G – D – Em – C – G – D – C – x2
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 heard 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 3 [Quiet]

Chorus 4

Outro

G – D – Em – C – G – D – C – x3

I practiced this song ✓

I practiced this song by heart ♥︎

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