Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

/Dish

I got rid of the shackles that bound me

and the guards that were always around me

There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail

/Dish

But I'm free from the chain gang now

All the years I was known and respected

'til one day I was wrongly suspected

I was shackled in chains in a cold freezin' rain

/Dish

but I'm free from the chain gang now

[Guitar]

All the years I was known by a number

how I kept my mind is a wonder

But like a bird in a tree I got my liberty

/Dish

and I'm free from the chain gang now

I got rid of the shackles that bound me

and the guards that were always around me

There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail

/Dish

But I'm free from the chain gang now

There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail

/Dish

But I'm free from the chain gang now