"Ox-Cart Wheel"

It's about time I finally posted this. I rewrote the lyrics to "Wagon Wheel" by OCMB to fit my life in Malawi. This song debuted at A Very Mushroom Christmas this year, and the crowd enjoyed it, however I am not a singer. If anyone with a great voice wants to record this and send it to me, feel free. 

"Ox-cart Wheel"

Headed up north to the land of the lake

Trying to flee the south for God's sake. 

Starin' at the road 

Pray to God I see headlamps

I made it to Jenda in seven long hours 

Enjoyin' a lunch of mangos and Powers

I'm a hopin' for Uluwa

I can see my puppy tonight 

So I'm rockin' myself like an ox-cart wheel 

Rockin' back and forth is how transport makes me feel

Crying and rocking

This day is worse than the hot season heat

This day is worst than the infection on my feet

Oh, Malawi

Runnin' from my life, back in The states

I thought that moving here was part of my fate

I used to have a real job

I oopsie poopsie now

Oh, the Mzuzu city winters keep a gettin' me down

Spent my money at Shoprite so I had to leave town

But I ain't a turnin' back 

To livin' that bwana life no more 

So I'm rockin' myself like an ox-cart wheel 

Rockin' back and forth is how transport makes me feel

Crying and rocking

This day is worse than the hot season heat

This day is worst than the infection on my feet

Oh, Malawi

Goin' down the escarpment with no option but to walk

Finally stopped a laurie out of Limbe

Had a awkward talk

He's a headed north for the Songwe boarder

To Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Oh, I gotta get a move on before the night

I hear a drunkard shout "azungu"

He's chasing my bike

And if I pass the iwes

They will beg for money. 

So I'm rockin' myself like an ox-cart wheel 

Rockin' back and forth is how transport makes me feel

Crying and rocking

This day is worse than the hot season heat

This day is worst than the infection on my feet

Oh, Malawi