re: Did you know 'Wagon Wheel' was a unfinished Bob Dylan song?

It's not bad,but he was putting together a soundtrack for a movie,and really,that song didn't fit in the soundtrack.

I first heard it on the bootleg collection,and there were some notes explaining about it.

There are no telling how many great Ideas that Dylan has just set aside in his time.

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Yes. Rucker covered OCMS who were covering Dylan. Now every shitty bar band in the country covers the song, too.

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Technically, OCMS weren't covering Dylan..since he only wrote a bit of the chorus. They wrote the rest of the song that everyone else has since played into the freaking ground.

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It wouldn't surprise me if Old Crow has to split the royalties with Dylan then

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they do

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Song is way too stupid for Dylan to have written.

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I'm a big Dylan fanboy, but ever heard Wiggle Wiggle?

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Wiggle Wiggle WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a gypsy queen
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle all dressed in green
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle ’til the moon is blue Wiggle ’til the moon sees you

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle in your boots and shoes
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, you got nothing to lose
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a swarm of bees Wiggle on your hands and knees

Wiggle to the front, wiggle to the rear
Wiggle ’til you wiggle right out of here Wiggle ’til it opens, wiggle ’til it shuts
Wiggle ’til it bites, wiggle ’til it cuts

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle—you can raise the dead

Wiggle ’til you’re high, wiggle ’til you’re higher
Wiggle ’til you vomit fire
Wiggle ’til it whispers, wiggle ’til it hums
Wiggle ’til it answers, wiggle ’til it comes

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like satin and silk
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a pail of milk
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, rattle and shake
Wiggle like a big fat snake

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Marco isn't a kid and he has a pretty extensive music collection. He probably just doesn't listen to this type of music.

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I probably would have never heard of it if I hadn't gone to U of Alabama and football games. Just isn't something I would ever willingly listen to.

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I have always figured that that was a song written more about panhandlers, liars and bull shitters,than about any cottonfields,the line you included is what gives it away.

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I don't get that from the lyrics.

Leadbelly wrote it, and he lived around Mooringsport, within 20 miles or so of the LA/AR border north of Shreveport, so he should have known that Texarkana was more than a mile from LA. Wikipedia says he originally sang "down in Louisiana, just ten miles from Texarkana" but that is also impossible, as Texarkana is 30 miles from the LA border.

I think it's just one of many examples of lyrics written to sound or flow better despite a lack of factual accuracy. "Just fifty-three miles from Texarkana" doesn't have the same zip.

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How many people actually believe the kid above that says he never heard it?

You have got to be kidding me....

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I only heard it because a friend of mine put it on a CD he made. I've never seen it come up on any of my Sirius presets.