Been breaking rocks on the chain gang
Breaking rocks and serving my time
Been breaking rocks on the chain gang
Because I´ve been convicted of crime
Hold it steady right there while I hit it
Ha I reckon thing ought to get it
Been a-working I´ve been working
And I still got a long way to go

I commited crime Lord I needed
Crime of being hungry and poor
I left the grocery store man a-bleeding (breathing?)
Cause he caught me robbing his store
Hold it steady right there while I hit it yeah
Yiah I reckon thing ought to get it
Been a-working I´ve been working
And I still got a long way to go

[Winds]

Been working I´ve been working
And I still got a long way to go

Well I heard the judge say five years of labour
To thechain-gang boy you gonna go
I heard the judge say five years labor
I heard my old man scream "Lordy, no!"
Hold it right there while I hit it
Well reckon that ought to get it
Been
Been working I´ve been working
And I still got a long way to go, oh ho
I wanna see my sweet honey baby
I ´m gonna take this chain off and run
I wanna lay down somewhere where it´s shady
Lord knows it´s hot in this sun
Hold it steady right there while I hit it
Well reckon that ought to get it
Been
Been working I´ve been working
And I still got a long way to go
Oh looord, it´s so hot
I wanna take this chain
I wanna run run run...