Kickoff - Guitar only (4 bars)

Everyone comes in

Headed down south to the land of the pines

I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline

Starin' at the road, and pray to God I see headlights

I made it down the coast in seventeen hours

Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers

And I'm hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight

So rock me momma like a wagon wheel

Rock me momma any way you feel - Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, momma rock me

Rock me momma like the wind and the rain

Rock me momma like a south-bound train - Heeeeeeeeeeeey, momma rock me

Short Fiddle Break

Short Fiddle Break

Runnin' from the cold, up in New England

I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band

My baby plays the guitar, I pick a banjo now

Ahh, the north country winters keep a-gettin' me low

Lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave

But I ain't turnin' back, to live that old life no more

So rock me momma like a wagon wheel

Rock me momma any way you feel - Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, momma rock me

Rock me momma like the wind and the rain

Rock me momma like a south-bound train - Heeeeeeeeeeeey, momma rock me

Full Fiddle Break

Full Fiddle Break -

Full Fiddle Break

Full Fiddle Break - Guitar and Bass only (on the downbeat)

Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke

I caught a trucker out of Phillie had a nice long toke

But he's a headed west from the Cumberland Gap, Johnson City, Tennessee

[Fiddle and Mandolin come back in] Now I've gotta get a move on before the sun

I hear my baby callin' my name, and I know that she's the only one

And if I die in Raleigh, at least I will die free

So rock me momma like a wagon wheel

Rock me momma any way you feel - Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, momma rock me

Rock me momma like the wind and the rain

Rock me momma like a south-bound train - Heeeeeeeeeeeey, momma rock me