These Chains

These chains won't keep me from being a free man

Doing what I can to get out of here

And these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

Changing my name and starting over again

I was a fool for a good looking woman

'til I found out the hard way there was some out of me

Now what else could I do how could any one blame me

To stand in this smile and with a gun in his hands

These chains won't keep me from being a free man

Doing what I can to get out of here

And these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

Changing my name and starting over again

She had a known reputation but I paid no attention

Good love and affection can make anything right

But judged no mercy for my infatuation

She said killers are sinned boys you've gotta pay the price

These chains won't keep me from being a free man

Doing what I can to get out of here

And these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

Changing my name and starting over again

Down the hole there's a window

You can barely see thro' it

Deep in the night I see

The lights of town

And started me thinking that a mystical ladder

Is as high as these walls and I'm climbing it run by run

These chains won't keep me from being a free man

Doing what I can to get out of here

And these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

Changing my name and starting over again