Bob Dylan / Rick Danko – This Wheel’s On Fire – Maggies Farmers

It was a long wait made slightly easier by the appearance of what
was called The Basement Tapes sometime during the winter.  My
first copy was on reel-to-reel tape, and getting one was a
clandestine operation, almost like buying dope.  I was visiting
someone in Philly who knew someone who had one, and I took a
lonesome trolley car out to some neighborhood I'd never been in
at night, and was kept outside waiting. It was like Big Pink but
different, like John Wesley Harding, but different.  Many of the
songs were mournful and spooky and others like "Million Dollar
Bash" were hysterical.  "Wheels On Fire" unlike the Big Pink
version was slow and scary as any Robert Johnson song.

source:

LYRICS

If your memory serves you well
You’ll remember that you’re the one
That called on me to call on them
To give you your favors done

And after every plan had failed
And there was nothing more to tell
You knew that we would meet again
If your memory served you well

This wheel’s on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode

If your memory serves you well
If your memory serves you well