Work Song

Breaking up big rocks on the chain gang
 Breaking rocks and serving my time
 Breaking rocks out here on the chain gang
 'Cause I've been convicted of crime
 Hold it steady right there and let me hit it well
 Well I reckon that ought to get it, yeah yeah
 I've been working
 I've been working
 Oh well and I still
 Got so terribly long to go
 Breaking up big rocks on the chain gang
 Breaking rocks and serving my time
 Breaking rocks out here on the chain gang
 'Cause I've been convicted of crime
 Hold it steady right there and let me hit it
 Well I reckon that ought to get it
 I've been working, I've been working
 And I still got so terribly long to go
 I've been convicted of crime Lord I needed
 A crime of being hungry and poor
 I left the grocery store man bleeding
 When they caught me robbing his store
 Hold it steady right there let me hit it
 Well I reckon that ought to get it
 I've been working, I've been working
 And I still got so terribly long to go
 I heard the judge say five years of hard labor
 On a chain-gang you gonna go
 I heard that dirty judge say five years of labor
 I heard my woman scream "Lordy, no!"
 Hold it steady right there and let me hit it
 Well I reckon that ought to get it
 I've been working, I've been working
 And I still got so terribly long to go
 Wanna see my sweet honey baby
 Wanna break this chain off and run
 Wanna go lay down somewhere shady
 'Cause it's sure goes hot here in the sun
 Hold it steady right there and let me hit it
 Well I reckon that ought to get it
 I've been working, I've been working
 Still got so terribly long to go
 Breaking up big rocks on the chain gang
 Breaking rocks and serving my time
 Breaking rocks out here on the chain gang
 'Cause I've been convicted of crime
 Hold it steady right there and let me hit it
 Well I reckon that ought to get it
 I've been working, I've been working
 Still got so terribly long to go
 I've been working, I've been slaving
 Still got so terribly long to go
 I've been working, I've been slaving
 And I still got so terribly long to go