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I’m Free from the Chain Gang Now (Mono)

August 01, 1962
From: The Sound Of Johnny Cash
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Songwriter: L. Herscher & S Klein

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I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me
There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail
But I’m free from the chain gang now
All the years I was known and respected ’til one day I was wrongly suspected
I was shackled in chains in a cold freezin’ rain but I’m free from the chain gang now

All the years I was known by a number how I kept my mind is a wonder
But like a bird in a tree I got my liberty and I’m free from the chain gang now
I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me
There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail
But I’m free from the chain gang now
There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail
But I’m free from the chain gang now

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