Lightnin Hopkins I Worked Down On The Chaing Gang Lyrics

I Worked Down On The Chaing Gang Lyrics

Yeah you know I worked on the railroad

  I even worked down on that chain
gang

Yeah you know I worked on the railroad

  Oh boy and I worked
down on the chain gang



Yeah they put me in jail when it was
raining

  Honey that was the best for me

Throwed me in the jail
when it was raining

  Honey and that is the best for me

You know
the jail kept me in [from] the wet

  I didn't have no place to stay,
don't you know



When I workin' on the chain gang,

  ball and
chain all around my leg

I was workin' on the chain gang,

  ball and
chain all around my leg

I said Please don't drive me too hard, I'm an old
man

They say We don't pay no attention to the age



He said
Who sent you down here, boy

  What did you break in this jail for?

Who sent you down here, boy

  What did you break in this jail for?

He say You look like a man would kill your mother

(And I believe he
did)

  Oh boy what did you kill that old woman for?

(A sad time,
and I had to cry...)



I said mmmmmmm mister jailer,

  will
you please sir bring me the key

I said mmmmmmm mister jailer,

 
will you please sir bring me the key

I says I just want you to open the
door

  Cause this ain't no place for me