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 wrote me in jail

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 shacked in chains in the cold freezing rain

But I'm free from the chain gang now

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

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

But I'm free from the chain gang now

There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail

But I'm free from the chain gang now