Chain Around My Leg Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]Hey, this one's a chain around my [C]leg.
When did you [G]make that one up,
[C]Woody?
This one?
Yeah.
Yesterday up in your [G]office.
What?
Yesterday up in [C]your office.
Where'd you [G]get the idea for it?
Well, I was looking [C]through a magazine
here a while back
and it was showing [G]conditions down
south where I come from
and all around there in
McAllister,
Oklahoma,
the state penitentiary [C]there.
They [G]have what they call chain gangs,
all the southern [C]prisons do. I [G]guess all of them do everywhere.
[C]Anyway, I w[G]as looking at all the[C]se pictures
and I [G]saw a line [C]of boys.[F]
[C]They was laying out in the sun,
[G]just completely exhausted [F]from [G]making biggums out of littlings.
[C]Big[G] chain, the bi[C]ggest thing
in the picture was a chain.
an[G]d it was around one of the boys' legs
[C]an d it run around all the [F]boys' legs
and [G]the chain had [F]what
[G]I could count [C]there,
about six links,
six big links between every [F]man.
[C]So I just [G]got thinking
what each one of them links
could stand [C]for,
an[G]d I made up this here song
[F]called
Chain
[C]Around
My
Leg.
Nothing [G]to lose but the [C]chain.
Got a mighty long chain on my [G]leg,
mighty long chain on my [C]leg.
I've lost everything in the [F]world
except that [G]chain around my [C]leg.
First link is [G]trouble, first link is [C]trouble,
first link is [F]trouble boy.
[G]Chain that's round my [C]leg.
Second link is [G]sorrow,
Second link is [C]sorrow,
Second link is [F]sorrow, boy.
[G]Chain that's round my [C]leg.
Third link I work [G]on, third [F]link [G]I work on,[C]
third link I [F]work on, but I'm a [G]cheater, I'm a [C]lame.
Old clinks [G]my sledge, old clinks my [C]sledge,
old clinks my [F]sledge,
Boys, that's [G]chain that's
around my [C]leg.
Fifth link's no [F]funny.
[G]Fifth link's no fun[C]ny.
Fifth link's no [F]funny.[Bb]
[F]Boys, that's a cha[G]in
that's around my [C]leg.
Six links, [G]sweetheart, [F]six[G] links, my sweetheart,[C]
six links, my [F]sweetheart, she [G]has your alibi.
[C]Nothing to lose but this cha[G]in,
Nothing to lose but this [C]chain,
Done, lost everything [F]else,
Except that [G]chain that's around my [C]leg.