Wagon Wheel C

by Unknown · posted by ithacaart

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

(I adjusted izakmo's tab so I could play in G on a C harp)

(verse)
-7  -7   -7   -7  -7  -7  -6  -6  -6   -6
Headed down south to the land of the pines

-7  -7   -7  -7 -7  -7  -7-7  -6    6 6  6
And I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline

-7 -7  -7  -7   -7
Starin' up the road

-7  -6  -6 -6  -7 -6   -6    6
And pray to God I see headlights

-7 -7 -7  -7  -7  -7    -7 -6 -6 -6   -6
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours

-7 -7  -7 -7 -7  -7 -7  -6   6   6  6
Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers

6   6    -7  -7   -7 -7  -7
And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh

-7 -7  -6 -6  -7 -7 -6 -6 6
I can see my baby tonight

(chorus)
6   -7  -7 -7 -7 -7  -7 7 -7   -6
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

-7 -7 -7 -7-7-7 -6  6   6
Rock me mama anyway you feel

6  -6 -6  -6  6
Hey  mama rock me

-7  -7 -7-7  -7  -7   7   -7   -7   8

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain

-7  -7  -7 -7  -7  -7  -6    6    6
Rock me mama like a south-bound train

6  -6 -6  -6  6
Hey  mama rock me

Runnin' from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time stringband
My baby plays the guitar
I pick a banjo now

Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin' me now
Lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave
But I ain't a turnin' back
To livin' that old life no more

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama 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 headed west from the Cumberland Gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee

And I gotta get a move on fit for 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 mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me