Darius Rucker – Wagon Wheel lyrics

Darius Rucker – Wagon Wheel lyrics

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lyrics taken from /lyrics/d/darius_rucker/wagon_wheel.html

Songwriters: Bob Dylan, Ketch Secor

Wagon Wheel lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group

Corrected by cdbennett

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Madeline_Rose 2015-04-09 22:11:22

This song is about a man who wants to see girl and go through the wagon wheel of his life like the hard times and good and rely on his girl to give his life a boast up in life and make sure he can do better for her and going miles for her and never giving up basically giving himself up for his girl!(love this song so much!).

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Unregistered 2013-11-02 22:46:31

I think it means that if he wants to see his girl, he's got to keep going and ride like a wagon wheel through good times and bad times no matter where he is, who is going to meet, how he going to get to her, and how long it is going to take him to get to Raleigh where he'll see his girl once again and live a happy life with her for all of his days of his life on Earth.

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