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Wagon WheelAgainst Me!

Released: October 18, 2005

Songwriter: Ketch Secor Bob Dylan

Headed down south to the land of the pines
I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
Starin' up the road
Pray to God I see headlights

Oh, 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 anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound 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 the guitar
I pick a banjo now

Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin' me now
Lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave
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 anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound 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 headed west from the Cumberland Gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee

And I gotta get a move on fit for the sun
I hear my baby callin' 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 mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me

Against Me!

Against Me! is a punk rock band created in Gainesville, Florida by lead singer Laura Jane Grace. The band’s lineup has changed many times over the years, with the longest lasting members being Laura and James. The current lineup is Laura Jane Grace (vocals/guitar), James Bowman (guitar), Andrew Seward (bass), and Atom Willard (drums). Laura put together the band’s first demo Against Me! (Demo) by herself in her bedroom of her mother’s house in December of 1996. Today Against Me! has seven studio albums, two live albums, five demos, and four EPs.

In 2012, the lead singer came out publicly as a transgender woman via Rolling Stone, naming herself Laura after her great-grandmother. During this time the future didn’t look great for the band and they considered the idea of Against Me! ending, but a year later the band released Transgender Dysphoria Blues, a concept album that dealt with themes of gender, dysphoria, and transition. Although lyrics in earlier albums hinted to these themes, this was the first by the band to openly and explicitly explore them.

After touring to support the album, they had enough material written to begin working on their next album Shape Shift With Me.

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