I'm Free From The Chaingang Now
Intro:
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Db Ab
I got rid of the shackles that bound me
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And the guards that were always around me.
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There were tears on the mail
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Mother wrote me in jail,
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But I'm free from the chain gang now.
Db Ab
All the years I was known and re - spected
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Till one day I was wrongly suspect - ed.
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I was shack - led in chains
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In the cold, freezin' rain,
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But I'm free from the chain gang now.
Interlude:
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| Ab | Eb/G | Ab | Ab |
Db Ab
All the years I was known by a number.
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How I kept my mind is a wonder.
Ab Db
But like a bird in a tree,
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I got my liber - ty,
Ab Eb/G Ab
And I'm free from the chain gang now.
Db Ab
I got rid of the shackles that bound me
Bb7 Eb
And the guards that were always around me.
Ab Db
There were tears on the mail
Ab Db/F
Mother wrote me in jail,
Ab Eb/G Ab
But I'm free from the chain gang now.
Ab Db
There were tears on the mail
Ab Db/F
Mother wrote me in jail,
Ab Eb/G Ab
But I'm free from the chain gang now.
