Remember the Little People Lyrics

Is it better standing up, isn't it?

It's really hard to sing this, you know?

(Well, it's a hard song, John)

Maybe I should strum it first

The patterns we make

Recreating mistakes

Sometimes it's hard to know

When it's time to go

Something's engraved deep in your pains

History has got a good hold on me

History has got a damn good hold on me

The sunrise has come

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

So, rock me Mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me Mama any way you feel

Hey, Mama rock me

Oh, rock me Mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me Mama like a southbound train

Hey, Mama 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

So, rock me Mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me Mama any way you feel

Hey, Mama rock me

Oh, rock me Mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me Mama like a southbound 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-headin' west from the Cumberland Gap

To Johnson City, Tennessee

And 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

But If I die in Raleigh, at least I will die free

So, rock me Mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me Mama any way you feel

Hey, Mama rock me

Oh, rock me Mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me Mama like a southbound train

Hey, Mama rock me

So, rock me Mama like a wagon wheel

Rock me Mama any way you feel (oh, I wanna feel)

Hey, Mama rock me

Oh, rock me Mama like the wind and the rain

Rock me Mama like a southbound train

Hey, Mama rock me