Written by Bob Dylan & Jay Secor
Recorded by Darius Rucker
Intro:
| Intro: | F# | C# | D#m | B | F# | C# | D#m | B | F# | C# | B |
| F# | C# |
| Headed down south to the | land of the pines |
| D#m | B | |
| And I'm | thumbin' my way into | North Caroline |
| F# |
| Starin' up the road |
| C# | B | |
| And pray to | God I see | headlights |
| F# | C# | |
| I | made it down the coast in | seventeen hours |
| D#m | B |
| Pickin' me a bouquet of | dogwood flowers |
| F# | |
| And I'm a | hopin' for Raleigh |
| C# | B | |
| I can | see my baby to | night |
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| Interlude | F# | C# | D#m | B | F# | C# | B |
| F# | C# |
| Runnin' from the cold | up in New England |
| D#m | B | |
| I was | born to be a fiddler in an | old-time stringband |
| F# | |
| My | baby plays the guitar |
| C# | B |
| I pick a banjo | now |
| F# | C# | |
| Oh, the | North country winters keep a | gettin' me down |
| D#m | B | |
| Lost my | money playin' poker so I | had to leave town |
| F# | |
| But I | ain't a turnin' back |
| C# | B | |
| To | livin' that old life | no more |
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| Interlude | F# | C# | D#m | B | F# | C# | B | 2x |
| F# | C# |
| Walkin' to the south | out of Roanoke |
| D#m | |
| I caught a | trucker out of Philly |
| B | |
| Had a | nice long toke |
| F# | C# | |
| But | he's a headed west from the | Cumberland Gap |
| B | |
| To | Johnson City, Tennessee |
| F# | C# | |
| And I | gotta get a move on | before the sun |
| D#m | |
| I hear my | baby callin' my name |
| B | |
| And I | know that she's the only one |
| F# | |
| And | if I die in Raleigh |
| C# | B | |
| At | least I will die | free |
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| Dinale: | F# | C# | D#m | B | F# | C# | B | 2x |