I’M FREE FROM THE CHAIN GANG NOW

INTRO:
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I got rid of the shackles that bound me
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And the guards that were always around me
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There were tears on the mail mother send me in jail
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But I'm free from the chain gang now
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Back home I was known and respected
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Than one day I was wrongly suspected
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So they put me in chains in a cold freezin’ rain
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But I'm free from the chain gang now

SOLO:
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All the years I was known by a number
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How I kept my mind is a wonder
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And the bare prison cell that was one step from hell
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But I'm free from the chain gang now
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I’ll pray that the gossip will spare me 
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When I return to the one I will married
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Like a bird in a tree I got my liberty
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And I'm free from the chain gang now