I did all I could baby

Satisfy your mind

Well I wake up every morning you got me moaning and crying

Trying to send me to the chain gang

Back to the murderers' home

I'd have been in a better shape mama

If I'd let that reckless woman alone

Now I'm gonna have to give you my number

41144

I'll be there forever

I ain't got no wheres else to go

Cause I've got to go to the chain gang

Back to the murderers' home

I'd have been in a better shape mama

If I'd let that reckless woman alone

He was a mean old judge

Wouldn't give me no fine

Only thing going to relieve me is old Father Time

I got to go to the chain gang

Back to the murderers' home

I would have been in a better shape mama

If I'd have let that reckless woman alone

When I was down in the alley mama drinking that old mean booze and gin

Say you better do your running around cause you ain't never going to do it again

'Cause it leads me straight to the chain gang

Down to the murderers' home

I'd have been in a better shape mama

If I'd have let that reckless woman alone

Goodbye everybody here comes the jailer with a key

Farewell to freedom I don't want no one to pity me

I'm going to the chain gang

Down to the murderers' home

I'd have been in a better shape mama

If I'd have let that reckless woman alone

So now bye bye all you womens this is the last I've got to say

Say I'm going on and make my time I'll be a free man some day

But I ain't going back to the chain gang

Back to the murderers' home

I'd have been in a better shape baby

If I'd have let that reckless woman alone