Johnny Cash - I'm Free From The Chain Gang Now guitar chord

I'm Free From The Chain Gang Now

Johnny Cash

(Capo 1st. Fret – Recorded in “G)

Intro: G-C-G-C-G-D-G

G C G

I got rid of the shackles that bound me

A D

And the guards that were always around me.

G C G C

There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail,

G D G

But I'm free from the chain gang now.

C G

All the years I was known and respected,

A D

Till one day I was wrongly suspected.

G C G C

I was shackled in chains in the cold freezin' rain,

G D G

But I'm free from the chain gang now.

Instrumental: (Chords same as the last two lines above-X2)

C G

All the years I was known by a number,

A D

How I kept my mind is a wonder.

G C G C

Like a bird in a tree I got my liberty

G D G

And I'm free from the chain gang now.

C G

I got rid of the shackles that bound me

A D

And the guards that were always around me

G C G C

There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail,

G D G

But I'm free from the chain gang now.

G C G C

There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail,

G D G

But I'm free from the chain gang now.