Wagon Wheel
by Old Crow Medicine Show · posted by izakmo
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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)
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Tab
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 mePlay on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound
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