Key: C minor
Verse 1
F#m
B
F#m
Breaking rocks out here on
B
F#m
the chain gang
F#m
B
Breaking rocks out here on
A
B
Because they done convicted me of crime
Verse 2
Hold it steady right there while I hit it
Well, reckon that ought to get it
C#
A
F#m
Been working and working
Adim
B
Adim
But I still got
Am
F#m
so terribly far to go
A
Verse 3
C#
B
C#m
I committed crime, Lord, I needed
F#m
C#m
F#m
Crime of being hungry and poor
A
B
C#
I left the grocery store man bleeding
C#m
C#
When they caught me robbing his store
Interlude 1
F#m
B
F#m
B
F#m
D
F#m
A
B
Adim
C#
F#m
B
A
Verse 4
C#m
A
F#m
On chain-gang you you
A
C#m
A
gonna go
F#m
I heard the judge say five years labor
A
C#
I heard my old man scream "Lordy,
Interlude 2
no!"
F#m
B
F#m
B
C#
F#m
B
Adim
G#
A
F#m
C#sus4
F#m
Verse 5
F#m
E
F#m
off to run
Gonna lay down somewhere
A
F#m
shady
C#m
C#
A
C#
G
Lord, I sure am hot in the sun
Verse 6
F#m
B
Hold it right there while I hit it
B
F#m
Well reckon that ought to get it
F#
F#m
Bm
B
Been workin' and workin'
E
F#m
Been workin' and slavin'
B
A
B
A
And workin' and workin'
F#m
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
But I still got
D
C#
B
C#
A
so terribly far to go
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