There Ain't No Good Chain Gang

(album: I'm Always On A Mountain When I Fall - 1978)

Bet it ain't a raining back home bet your sister's still on the phone
Bet mama's in the kitchen cooking fried chicken wishing that I hadn't went wrong
Oh, but mama don't you worry everything's gonna be alright
They're teaching us a lot of new things in here.

There ain't no good in an evil hearted woman
And I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James
And you don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi
And there ain't no good chain gang.

Papa's reading yesterday's mail wishing that the hay was all baled
I bet that he's a wishing we could go fishing
Stead of me sitting here in this ol' damned jail.

There ain't no good in an evil hearted woman
And I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James
And you don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi
And there ain't no good chain gang.

No, there ain't no kinda good in an evil hearted woman
And I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James
And you don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi
And there ain't no good chain gang...