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