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Wagon Wheel

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Tuning: E A D G B E

Capo: 2

BPM: 148

    Headin' down south to the land of the pines, I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
    [Verse 1]
N   G                                              D                                         Em             
e|--3-------------------|--------------------|-----2--------------|--------------------|-----0--------------|
B|--3-------------------|--------------------|-----3--------------|--------------------|-----0--------------|
G|--4-------------------|--------------------|-----2--------------|--------------------|-----0--------------|
D|--5-------------------|--------------------|-----0--------------|--------------------|-----2--------------|
A|--5-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-----2--------------|
E|--3-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-----0--------------|

                                         Starin' up the road and pray to God I see headlights, I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
N                             C          G                                              D              
e|----------------------|-----0---------|3-------------------|--------------------|-----2--------------|
B|----------------------|-----1---------|3-------------------|--------------------|-----3--------------|
G|----------------------|-----0---------|4-------------------|--------------------|-----2--------------|
D|----------------------|-----2---------|5-------------------|--------------------|-----0--------------|
A|----------------------|-----3---------|5-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
E|----------------------|---------------|3-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|

[ preview ends at bar 10 — the interactive score has the rest ]

                         C              G                                               D

    [Chorus]
    Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers, And I'm a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight
    Em                                        C                                              G

                                                                         So, rock me mama like a wagon wheel, Rock me mama any way you feel, Hey... mama rock me
                              D                              C                G

                   D                    Em                              C                         G    D

                         [Verse 2]
                         Rock me mama like the wind and the rain, Rock me mama like a southbound train, Hey... mama rock me
              C          G                              D                                    Em

                                                                                        Runnin' from the cold up in New England, I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band
                   C                               G         D               C          G

                         D                                         Em

                                    My baby plays a guitar, I pick a banjo now, Oh, north country winters keep a-gettin' me down
              C                     G                                   D

                                                                              Lost my money playin' poker, so I had to leave town,
         C                    G                                         D          Em

                                         [Chorus]
                                         But I ain't a-turnin' back to livin' that old life no more
                                   C               G                               D

                                    So, rock me mama like a wagon wheel, Rock me mama any way you feel, Hey... mama rock me
                         C          G                              D                    Em

                                                                                   [Interlude/Solo)
                                                                                   Rock me mama like the wind and the rain, Rock me mama like a southbound train, Hey... mama rock me
                         C                         G    D               C          G

              D                                    Em                             C

         G         D               C          G         D    Em         C          G         D    C

                                               [Bridge]
          G         D    Em         C          G         G    C

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

                                                    But he's a-headin' west from the Cumberland Gap,To Johnson City, Tennessee
                                   C                G

                                                         And I gotta get a move on before the sun,I hear my baby callin'
              D                         C                          G

                                                    [Chorus]
                                                    my name and I know that she's the only one, And if I died in Raleigh, at least I will die free
    D                                   Em                         C

                                   G                                              D

          So, rock me mama like a wagon wheel, Rock me mama any way you feel, Hey... mama rock me
    C     G                              D                    Em

                                                              [Chorus]
                                                              Rock me mama like the wind and the rain, Rock me mama like a southbound train, Hey... mama rock me
    C                         G    D               C          G                              D

                              Em                             C                               G         D

                         So, rock me mama like a wagon wheel, Rock me mama any way you feel, Hey... mama rock me
              C               G                              D                    Em

                                                                   [Outro]
                                                                   Rock me mama like the wind and the rain, Rock me mama like a southbound train, Hey... mama rock me
         C                         G    D                    C     G                              D

                              Em                             C                               G         D

              C                    Em         C          G         D    C

    G         D    Em         C          G         D    C           G         D    Em

         C          G         D    C
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Instruments
Guitar
Genres
Pop
Tracks
1
Tempo
148 BPM
Time signature
4/4
Tuning
E A D G B E
Capo
Fret 2
Key
A major
Difficulty
Beginner
Bars
152
Frets used
Frets 0-5
Published 15 May 2021

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Wagon Wheel is a Guitar score arranged by Brady Napolitano and filed under Pop. Read it as tablature or as standard sheet music notation, play it back at any tempo, and practise it a bar at a time.

It is written in 4/4 at 148 BPM, with a capo at fret 2. It is in A major, and the arrangement runs 152 bars. We grade it beginner — it stays between frets 0 and 5 and there are 4 chord shapes to learn. It is written as plain fretted notes, with no bends, slides or hammer-ons to learn first.

Chords used: G, D, Em, C — as shaped, with the capo at fret 2. Each one links to its shapes and fingerings.

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