Johnny Cash - I'm Free From The Chain Gang Now lyrics

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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 sent me in jail

But I'm free from the chain gang now

Back home I was known and respected then one day I was wrongly suspected

So they put me in chains in a cold freezin' rain but I'm free from the chain gang now

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All the years I was known by a number how I kept my mind is a wonder

And the bare prison cell that was one step from hell

But I'm free from the chain gang now

I prayed that the gossip will spare me when I return to the one I will marry

Like a bird in a tree I got my liberty and I'm free from the chain gang now