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Wagon Wheel

by Old Crow Medicine Show · posted by izakmo

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How to read this tab — notation key
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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)

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If anyone's up to the task, I'd love to see the fiddle parts of this song tabbed out for harp.


(verse)
 5  5   5     5   5   5   -4  -4  -4   -4   
Headed down south to the land of the pines

 5   5   5    5   5  5  5 5   -4    4 4  4
And I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline

 5   5   5  5   5
Starin' up the road

 5   -4  -4 -4  5 -4   -4    4
And pray to God I see headlights


5  5   5   5    5   5    5  -4 -4 -4   -4
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours

 5   5  5  5  5   5  5  -4   4   4  4
Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers

 4   4     5  5   5   5  5
And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh

5  5  -4  -4  5 5 -4 -4 4
I can see my baby tonight


(chorus)
4   5    5  5 5  5   5 -5 5   -4
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel

 5   5   5 5 5 5 -4  4   4
Rock me mama anyway you feel

 4  -4 -4  -4  4
Hey  mama rock me

 5   5   5 5  5    5   -5   5   5   6
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain

 5   5   5 5  5   5  -4     4    4
Rock me mama like a south-bound train

 4  -4 -4  -4  4
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
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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