Tonart: B major•
Verse 1
B
E
Hey, this one's a chain around my leg.
B
When did you make that one up,
E
Woody?
This one?
Yeah.
B
Yesterday up in your office.
What?
E
Yesterday up in your office.
B
Where'd you get the idea for it?
E
Well, I was looking through a magazine
here a while back
B
and it was showing conditions down
south where I come from
and all around there in
McAllister,
Oklahoma,
E
the state penitentiary there.
B
They have what they call chain gangs,
E
B
all the southern prisons do. I guess all of them do everywhere.
E
B
E
Anyway, I was looking at all these pictures
B
E
A
and I saw a line of boys.
E
They was laying out in the sun,
B
A
B
just completely exhausted from making biggums out of littlings.
E
B
E
Big chain, the biggest thing
in the picture was a chain.
B
and it was around one of the boys' legs
E
A
an d it run around all the boys' legs
B
A
and the chain had what
B
E
I could count there,
about six links,
A
six big links between every man.
E
B
So I just got thinking
what each one of them links
B
and I made up this here song
A
called
Chain
E
Around
My
Leg.
B
E
Nothing to lose but the chain.
B
Got a mighty long chain on my leg,
E
mighty long chain on my leg.
A
I've lost everything in the world
B
E
except that chain around my leg.
B
E
First link is trouble, first link is trouble,
A
first link is trouble boy.
B
E
Chain that's round my leg.
A
Second link is sorrow, boy.
B
E
Chain that's round my leg.
B
A
B
E
Third link I work on, third link I work on,
A
B
E
third link I work on, but I'm a cheater, I'm a lame.
B
E
Old clinks my sledge, old clinks my sledge,
B
Boys, that's chain that's
B
E
Fifth link's no funny.
A
D
Fifth link's no funny.
A
B
Boys, that's a chain
B
A
B
E
Six links, sweetheart, six links, my sweetheart,
A
B
six links, my sweetheart, she has your alibi.
E
B
Nothing to lose but this chain,
E
Nothing to lose but this chain,
A
Done, lost everything else,
B
E
Except that chain that's around my leg.
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