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Carolina Waggin’

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A mash up of Dougie MacLean's Caladonia and Old Crow Medicine Show/Bob Dylan's Wagon Wheel

Just feels right coming home to North Carolina.

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Carolina Waggin'

Let me tell you that I love you
That I think about you all the time
Caledonia you're calling me
Now I'm going home.
But if I shall become a stranger
Know that it would make me more than sad,
Caledonia's been everything I've ever had.

Heading down south to the land of the pines
I'm thumbing my way into North Carolina
Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I'm a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight

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

I don't know if you can see,
The changes that have come over me.
In these last few days I've been afraid
That I might drift away
I've been telling stories, singing songs,
That make me think about where I come from.
That's the reason why I seem
So far away today.

Let me tell you that I love you
That I think about you all the time
Caledonia you're calling me
Now I'm going home.
But if I shall become a stranger
Know that it would make me more than sad,
Caledonia's been everything I've ever had.

Running 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-getting me down
Lost my money playing poker so I had to leave town
But I ain't turning back to living that old life no more

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

Now I have moved and kept on moving,
Proved the points that I needed proving,
Lost the friends that I needed losing,
Found others on the way.
But I'm steady thinking my way is clear,
And I know what I will do tomorrow,
When hands have shaken, the kisses flowed,
Then I will disappear.

Let me tell you that I love you
That I think about you all the time
Caledonia you're calling me
Now I'm going home.
But if I shall become a stranger
Know that it would make me more than sad,
Caledonia's been everything I've ever had.

Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke
I caught a trucker out of Philly had a nice long toke
But he's a-heading west from the Cumberland gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee
I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby calling 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 momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey momma rock me
Oh, rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey, hey momma rock me

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from Waggin’, released April 14, 2020

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When you think of wandering minstrels, do you ever think they might live on a boat? SaltyPaws is a sailing acoustic duo, living aboard their catamaran, sailing and singing the Atlantic eastern seaboard. You'll hear guitar and 5 string banjo, spiced with harmonica and concertina. Wherever the boat is in port, you'll find Bentley and Jim joining a jam, at an open mic, or busking a street corner. ... more

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