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Key: E major•

Intro 1

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Breaking rocks out here

Verse 1

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on the chain gang

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Breaking rocks and serving my time

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Breaking rocks out here on

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the chain gang

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Because they done con

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victed me of crime

Verse 2

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Hold it steady right there while I hit it

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Well, reckon that ought to get it

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Been working and working

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But I still got so terribly far to go

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I committed crime

Verse 3

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Lord I needed

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Crime of being hungry and poor

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I left the grocery store man breathing

When they caught me robbing his store

Verse 4

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Well, reckon that ought to get it

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Been working and working

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But I still got so terribly far to go

Verse 5

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I heard the judge say five years

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On chain- gang you gonna go

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I heard the judge say five years labor

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I heard my old man scream Lordy, no!

Verse 6

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Hold it right there while I hit it

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Well, reckon that ought to get it

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Been working and working

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But I still got so terribly far to go

Interlude 1

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F#dim

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F#dim

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Gonna see my sweet

Verse 7

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honey bee

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Gonna break this chain off to run

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I'm gonna lay down somewhere shady

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Lord, I sure am hot in the sun

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Hold it right

Verse 8

there while I hit it

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Well, reckon that ought to get it

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Been workin' and workin'

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Been workin' and slavin'

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An' workin' and workin'

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But I still got so terribly far to go

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