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