I did all I baby, satisfy your mind, Well I wake up every you got me moaning and crying. Trying to 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 alone.
Now I'm have to give 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 have in a better shape mama, if I'd let that reckless woman alone.
He was a old judge, wouldn't give me no fine, Only going to relieve me is old Father Time, I got to go to the gang, back to the murderers' home I would have been in a better shape mama, if I'd have let that reckless alone.
When I was down in the alley mama that old mean booze and gin, Say you better do your running around cause you ain't never going to do it 'Cause it leads me straight to the gang, down to the murderers' home, I'd have been in a better shape mama, if I'd have let that woman alone.
Goodbye everybody here comes the jailer a key, Farewell to freedom I want no one to pity me, I'm to the chain gang, down to the murderers' home, I'd have been in a better shape mama, if I'd let that reckless woman alone.
So now bye-bye all you womens this is the last got to say Say I'm going on and my time I'll be a free man some day, But I ain't back to the chain gang, back to the murderers' home, I'd have been in a better baby, if I'd have let that reckless woman alone.