Chain Around My Leg
Chain Around My Leg

Chain Around My Leg easy guitar chords by Woody Guthrie

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    • Verse 1
    Hey, this 
    one's a chain around 
    my 
    leg. 

    When 
    did you 
    make that 
    one up, 

    Woody? 

    This one? 

    Yeah. 

    Yesterday up in your 
    office. 

    What? 

    Yesterday up 
    in 
    your office. 

    Where'd 
    you 
    get the idea 
    for it? 

    Well, I was 
    looking 
    through a magazine 

    here a while 
    back 

    and it was showing 
    condi
    tions down 

    south where 
    I come 
    from 

    and all 
    around there in 

    McAllister, 

    Oklahoma, 

    the state penitentiary 
    there. 

    They 
    have 
    what they 
    call chain gangs, 

    all the 
    southern 
    prisons do. 
    I 
    guess all 
    of them do everywhere. 

    Anyway, 
    I was looking 
    at all 
    these pictures 

    and I 
    saw a 
    line 
    of boys. 

    They was laying 
    out in the sun, 

    just completely 
    exhausted 
    from 
    making 
    biggums out of 
    littlings. 

    Big 
    chain, 
    the biggest thing 

    in the picture was 
    a chain. 

    an
    d it 
    was around one of the boys' 
    legs 

    an
    d it run around all the 
    boys' legs 

    and 
    the chain 
    had 
    what 

    I could 
    count 
    there, 

    about 
    six links, 

    six big 
    links between every 
    man. 

    So 
    I just 
    got thinking 

    what each one of them links 

    could stand 
    for, 

    an
    d I made 
    up this here song 

    called 

    Chain 

    Around 

    My 

    Leg. 

    Nothing 
    to lose 
    but the 
    chain. 

    Got 
    a 
    mighty 
    long 
    chain 
    on 
    my 
    leg, 

    mighty 
    long 
    chain 
    on 
    my 
    leg. 

    I've 
    lost 
    everything 
    in 
    the 
    world 

    except 
    that 
    chain 
    around 
    my 
    leg. 

    First 
    link 
    is 
    trouble, 
    first 
    link 
    is 
    trouble, 

    first 
    link 
    is 
    trouble 
    boy. 

    Chain 
    that's 
    round 
    my 
    leg. 

    Second 
    link 
    is 
    sorrow, 

    Second 
    link 
    is 
    sor
    row, 

    Second 
    link 
    is 
    sorrow, 
    boy. 

    Chain 
    that's 
    round 
    my 
    leg. 

    Third 
    link 
    I 
    work 
    on, 
    third 
    link 
    I 
    work 
    on, 

    third 
    link 
    I 
    work 
    on, 
    but 
    I'm 
    a 
    cheater, 
    I'm 
    a 
    lame. 

    Old 
    clinks 
    my sledge, 
    old 
    clinks 
    my 
    sledge, 

    old 
    clinks 
    my 
    sledge, 

    Boys, 
    that's 
    chain 
    that's 

    around 
    my 
    leg. 

    Fifth 
    link's 
    no 
    funny. 

    Fifth 
    link's 
    no 
    funny. 

    Fifth 
    link's 
    no 
    funny. 

    Boys, 
    that's 
    a 
    chain 

    that's 
    around 
    my 
    leg. 

    Six 
    links, 
    sweetheart, 
    six 
    links, 
    my 
    sweet
    heart, 

    six 
    links, 
    my 
    sweetheart, 
    she 
    has 
    your alibi. 

    Nothing 
    to 
    lose 
    but 
    this 
    chain, 

    Nothing 
    to 
    lose 
    but 
    this 
    chain, 

    Done, 
    lost 
    everything 
    else, 

    Except 
    that 
    chain 
    that's 
    around 
    my 
    leg. 

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