I did all I could baby, your mind, Well I wake up morning 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 reckless woman alone.
Now I'm gonna to give you my number, 4-11-44, I'll be forever, I ain't got no wheres else to go. Cause 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 thing going to 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 that woman alone.
When I was down in the mama drinking that old mean booze and gin, Say you better do your running around you ain't never going to do it again '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 reckless woman alone.
Goodbye everybody 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 is the last I've got to say Say I'm going on and my time I'll be a free man some day, But I ain't going to the chain gang, back to the murderers' home, I'd have been in a better shape baby, if I'd let that reckless woman alone.