The Work Song

Been breaking rocks on the chain gang

Breaking rocks and serving my time

Been breaking rocks on the chain gang

Because I´ve been convicted of crime

Hold it steady right there while I hit it

Ha I reckon thing ought to get it

Been a-working I´ve been working

And I still got a long way to go

I commited crime Lord I needed

Crime of being hungry and poor

I left the grocery store man a-bleeding (breathing?)

Cause he caught me robbing his store

Hold it steady right there while I hit it yeah

Yiah I reckon thing ought to get it

Been a-working I´ve been working

And I still got a long way to go

Been working I´ve been working

And I still got a long way to go

Well I heard the judge say five years of labour

To thechain-gang boy you gonna go

I heard the judge say five years labor

I heard my old man scream "Lordy, no!"

Hold it right there while I hit it

Well reckon that ought to get it

Been

Been working I´ve been working

And I still got a long way to go, oh ho

I wanna see my sweet honey baby

I ´m gonna take this chain off and run

I wanna lay down somewhere where it´s shady

Lord knows it´s hot in this sun

Hold it steady right there while I hit it

Well reckon that ought to get it

Been

Been working I´ve been working

And I still got a long way to go

Oh looord, it´s so hot

I wanna take this chain

I wanna run run run...