Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Chain Gang , by - Nina Simone. Song from the album Nina Simone With Strings, in the genre Release date: 16.12.2015
Record label: Compulsion
Song language: English
Chain Gang |
| 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 |