Headin' down south to the land of the pines. I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline

Starin' up the road and pray to God I see headlights

I made it down the coast in seventeen hours, pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers

And I'm a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight

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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

Runnin' 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-gettin' me down

Lost my money playin' poker so I had to leave town

But I ain't a-turnin' back to livin' that old life no more

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Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke, I caught a trucker out of Philly had a nice long toke

But he's a headin' west from the Cumberland gap to Johnson City, Tennessee

I gotta get a move on before the sun

I hear my baby callin' my name and I know that she's the only one

And if I died in Raleigh at least I will die free

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