Chain Gang

With Count Basie

Don't you know

That's the sound of the men

They're working on the chain gang

Woah, lord, the sound of the men

They're working on the chain gang

All day long, they're singing

Don't you know

The sound of the men

They're working on the chain gang

Can't you hear them

They're out there working

They're working on the chain gang

All day long, they work so hard

Til the sun is going down

Working on the highway and byways

And wearing, wearing a frown

You'll hear them

Moaning their lives away

Then you might hear

Somebody say now

That's the sound of the men

They're working on the chain gang

Woah, lord, the sound of the men

Working on the chain gang

All day long, they're going

That's the sound of the men

Working on the chain gang

Every day, that's the sound of men

They're working on the chain gang

This is what they're saying

I'm going home one of these days

I'm going home, yes, I am

See my woman, the one I love so dear

But in the meanwhile, people

You know I gotta work right here

The sound of the men

They're working on the chain...