I did all I could baby, your mind, Well I wake up every you got me moaning and crying. Trying to send me to the chain gang, back to the home I'd have in a better shape mama, if I'd let that reckless woman alone.
Now I'm gonna have to you my number, 4-11-44, I'll be there forever, I ain't got no wheres to go. I've got to go to the chain gang, back to the murderers' home I'd been in a better shape mama, if I'd let that reckless woman alone.
He was a mean old judge, give me no fine, Only going to relieve me is old Father Time, I got to go to the chain gang, to the murderers' home I would have been in a better shape mama, if I'd have let reckless woman alone.
When I was down in the mama drinking that old mean booze and gin, Say you better do your around cause you ain't never going to do it again 'Cause it leads me 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 alone.
Goodbye here comes the jailer with a key, to freedom I don't want no one to pity me, I'm going to the chain gang, to the murderers' home, I'd have been in a shape mama, if I'd have let that reckless woman alone.
So now bye-bye all you womens this is the I've got to say Say I'm going on and make my time I'll be a free man day, But I ain't back to the chain gang, back to the murderers' home, I'd have been in a better shape baby, if I'd have let reckless woman alone.