Wagon Wheel Chords - Darius Rucker

Wagon Wheel Chords – Darius Rucker

Wagon Wheel Chords is a song co-written by Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show. Wagon Wheel Darius Rucker Guitar Chords. Dylan recorded the chorus in 1973; Secor added verses 25 years later. Old Crow Medicine Show’s final version was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in April 2013.

Wagon Wheel Guitar Chords Chart

Capo On 2nd Fret

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

[Verse]
G D
Heading down south to the land of the pines
Em C
I’m thumbing my way into North Caroline
G D
Staring up the road and pray to
C
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
And I’m a-hopin’ for Raleigh,
D C
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]
G
Running from the
D
cold up in New England
Em
I was born to be a fiddler
C
in an old time string band
G
My baby plays a guitar,
D C
I pick a banjo now
G
Oh, north country
D
winters keep a-getting me down
Em
I lost my money playing poker so
C
I had to leave town
G
But I ain’t turning back to
D C
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
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]
G D
Walkin’ to the south out of Roanoke
Em
I caught a trucker out of
C
Philly had a nice long toke
G
But he’s a heading
D
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 calling my name and
C
I know that she’s the only one
G D C
And if I died in Raleigh at least I will die free

[Chorus] (one strum each chord below)
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
Oh, rock me momma like
D
the wind and the rain
Em C
Rock me momma like a south bound train
G D C
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, 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