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Chain Gang
Recorded by Freddie Hart
Written by Harlan Howard

C      C#         C
(Chain gang chain gang)

                   F
I was just a kid a roamin' around 
G7                  C
Travelin' through a little ol' town
                                  F
When a sheriff walked up and said come with me 
       G7                   C
You're broke and son that's vagrancy

                        F
Just a carefree lad who loved to roam 
G7                        C
And how I wish that I had stayed at home
                                       F
For the way that I was treated I would rather hang 
     G7                     C
It's no life of living on a chain gang

  F              C
I dig that ditch chop that corn 
G7                 C
Curse the day that I was born
                            F
I believe it's better for a man to hang 
     G7                      C
Than to work like a dog on a chain gang

       C#         C
(Chain gang chain gang

                                   F
Well the guard stands there with a great big gun 
G7                 C
I bet he'd love to see me run
                       F
And I guess I probably will some day 
    G7                     C
I'd rather be dead than to live this way

                           F
He looks well fed and he’s six feet tall 
G7                   C
And he's the meanest of us all
                               F
For he cracks that whip and he swings that cane 
  G7                     C
I reckon the sun must've touched his brain

Repeat #3

 C#         C
(Chain gang chain gang

                            F
I gotta gal back home who's true and kind 
G7                         C
And she's been a waitin' a long long time
                     F
I wrote and told her forget my name 
    G7                   C
For I'll never lose this chain gang chain

                          F
To heaven deliver me from this ol’ hole 
G7                       C
Where a man can lose his mind and soul
                                  F
Where the flesh gets weak and the back gets broke 
    G7                  C
And there’s no cause to laugh and joke

Repeat #3

G7                   C
Work like a dog on a chain gang 
G7                   C
Work like a dog on a chain gang
G7                   C
Work like a dog on a chain gang 
G7                   C
Work like a dog on a chain gang

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