Working on the chain-gang 7 days a week

Never had a sunday off

Been here for a life time body's getting weak

Down here in the dirt you got no lucky streak



I'm gonna set me free Everything I wanna be I know it's up to me

A slave I never be



Dying in a coal mine half a mile below

Dirty lungs that gasp for air

Haven't seen the sunshine don't know for how long

Never thought I end my life while i'm still young



I'm gonna set me free Everything I wanna be I know it's up to me

A slave I never be



Let my master know I am cutting off these chains

I don't fear his whip no more

Stand up like a human walk away a man

Gonna set me free and jump out of this frying pan