Chain Gang (The Work Song)

Breaking rocks out here on the chain gang
 Breaking rocks and serving my time
 Breaking rocks out here on the chain gang
 Because they done convicted me of crime
 Hold it steady right there while I hit it
 Well reckon that ought to get it
 Been
 Working and working
 But I still got so terribly far to go
 I commited crime Lord I needed
 Crime of being hungry and poor
 I left the grocery store man bleeding (breathing?)
 When they caught me robbing his store
 Hold it steady right there while I hit it
 Well reckon that ought to get it
 Been
 Working and working
 But I still got so terribly far to go
 I heard the judge say five years
 On chain-gang 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
 Working and working
 But I still got so terribly far to go
 I'm getting tired and tired and tired and tired and tired and tired
 Working on the chain gang
 But they still
 They tell me I still
 Even though I'm so tired and tired
 They tell me I still
 Got so terribly far to go