I did all I baby, satisfy 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 been in a 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. Cause I've got to go to the chain gang, back to the murderers' 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 thing 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 woman alone.
When I was down in the alley mama drinking that old booze and gin, Say you better do your running cause you ain't never going to do it again 'Cause it leads me straight to the chain gang, down to the home, I'd have been in a shape mama, if I'd have let that reckless woman alone.
Goodbye here comes the jailer with a key, Farewell to I don't want no one to pity me, I'm going to the gang, down to the murderers' home, I'd have been in a better mama, if I'd have let that reckless woman alone.
So now bye-bye all you womens is the last I've got to say Say I'm going on and make my time I'll be a man some day, But I going back to the chain gang, back to the murderers' home, I'd have been in a shape baby, if I'd have let that reckless woman alone.