Wagon Wheel Chords & Tabs

by Darius Rucker

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Pattern 1:
BPM: 148
Denominator: 8
Triplet: Yes
Measures: [1, 202, 202, 1, 202, 101, 202, 202, 101, 1, 202, 101]

[Intro]
G  D  Em  C
G  D  Em  C
G  D  C

[Verse 1]
 G                         D               
Heading down south to the land of the pines
    Em                    C            
I'm thumbing my way into North Caroline
  G                      D                 C        
Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights
  G                          D             
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Em                       C             
Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
          G                          D             C   
And I'm a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight

[Chorus]
    G                    D         
So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Em                C           
Rock me momma any way you feel
 G  D        C     
Hey,  momma rock me
 G                      D               
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
 Em                   C               
Rock me momma like a south bound train
 G  D        C     
Hey,  momma rock me

[Instrumental]
G  D  Em  C
G  D  C

[Verse 2]
 G                    D                
Running from the cold up in New England
      Em                         C                   
I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band
   G                   D               C  
My baby plays a guitar, I pick a banjo now
     G                            D             
Oh, north country winters keep a-getting me down
         Em                       C               
Lost my money playing poker so I had to leave town
      G                      D                   C      
But I ain't turning back to living that old life no more

[Chorus]
    G                    D         
So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
 Em                C          
Rock me momma any way you feel
 G  D        C     
Hey,  momma rock me
       G                      D               
Yeah, rock me momma like the wind and the rain
 Em                   C               
Rock me momma like a south bound train
 G  D        C     
Hey,  momma rock me

[Instrumental]
G  D  Em  C
G  D  C
G  D  Em  C
G  D  C
[Verse 3] (one strum each chord below)
 G                    D            
Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke
            Em                           C            
I caught a trucker out of Philly, had a nice long toke
     G                            D            
But he's a heading west from the Cumberland gap
    C                     
To Johnson City, Tennessee
   G                   D            
I gotta get a move on before the sun
           Em                         C                          
I hear my baby calling my name and I know that she's the only one
    G                       D              C    
And if I die in Raleigh at least I will die free
[Chorus] (soft drums, banjo, and guitar)
    G                   D          
So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
 Em                C          
Rock me momma any way you feel
 G  D        C     
Hey,  momma rock me
     G                      D               
Oh, rock me momma like the wind and the rain
 Em                   C               
Rock me momma like a south bound train
 G     D        C     
Hey, hey momma rock me
(normal strumming)
        G                    D         
Oh, so rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Em             C           
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, I wanna feel
(Rock me momma any way you feel)
 G     D        C                                   
Hey, hey momma rock me, momma rock me, momma rock me
 G                      D               
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
 Em                   C               
Rock me momma like a south bound train
 G         D           C                               
Hey, yeah yeah, momma rock me, you can rock me, rock me

[Outro]
G  D  Em  C
G  D  C
G  D  Em  C
G  D  C
G  D  Em  C
G  D  C
G  D  Em  C
G  D  C
(fade out)