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Chain Around My Leg easy guitar chords by 
Woody Guthrie
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Verse 1
G
C
Hey, this one's a chain around my leg.
G
When did you make that one up,
C
Woody?
This one?
Yeah.
G
Yesterday up in your office.
What?
C
Yesterday up in your office.
G
Where'd you get the idea for it?
C
Well, I was looking through a magazine
here a while back
G
and it was showing conditions down
south where I come from
and all around there in
McAllister,
Oklahoma,
C
the state penitentiary there.
G
They have what they call chain gangs,
C
G
all the southern prisons do. I guess all of them do everywhere.
C
G
C
Anyway, I was looking at all these pictures
G
C
F
and I saw a line of boys.
C
They was laying out in the sun,
G
F
G
just completely exhausted from making biggums out of littlings.
C
G
C
Big chain, the biggest thing
in the picture was a chain.
G
and it was around one of the boys' legs
C
F
an d it run around all the boys' legs
G
F
and the chain had what
G
C
I could count there,
about six links,
F
six big links between every man.
C
G
So I just got thinking
what each one of them links
C
could stand for,
G
and I made up this here song
F
called
Chain
C
Around
My
Leg.
G
C
Nothing to lose but the chain.
G
Got a mighty long chain on my leg,
C
mighty long chain on my leg.
F
I've lost everything in the world
G
C
except that chain around my leg.
G
C
First link is trouble, first link is trouble,
F
first link is trouble boy.
G
C
Chain that's round my leg.
G
Second link is sorrow,
C
Second link is sorrow,
F
Second link is sorrow, boy.
G
C
Chain that's round my leg.
G
F
G
C
Third link I work on, third link I work on,
F
G
C
third link I work on, but I'm a cheater, I'm a lame.
G
C
Old clinks my sledge, old clinks my sledge,
F
old clinks my sledge,
G
Boys, that's chain that's
C
around my leg.
F
Fifth link's no funny.
G
C
Fifth link's no funny.
F
Bb
Fifth link's no funny.
F
G
Boys, that's a chain
C
that's around my leg.
G
F
G
C
Six links, sweetheart, six links, my sweetheart,
F
G
six links, my sweetheart, she has your alibi.
C
G
Nothing to lose but this chain,
C
Nothing to lose but this chain,
F
Done, lost everything else,
G
C
Except that chain that's around my leg.
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