These Chains lyrics

These chains won't keep me from being a free man

Doing what I can to get out of here

And these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

Changing my name and starting over again

I was a fool for a good looking woman

'til I found out the hard way, there was some out of me

Now what else could I do, how could any one blame me

To stand in this smile and with a gun in his hands

These chains won't keep me from being a free man

Doing what I can to get out of here

And these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

Changing my name and starting over again

She had a known reputation but I paid no attention

Good love and affection can make anything right

But judged no mercy for my infatuation

She said: killers are sinned boys, you've gotta pay the price

These chains won't keep me from being a free man

Doing what I can to get out of here

And these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

Changing my name and starting over again

Down the hole there's a window

You can barely see thro' it

Deep in the night I see

The lights of town

And started me thinking that a mystical ladder

Is as high as these walls and I'm climbing it run by run

These chains won't keep me from being a free man

Doing what I can to get out of here

And these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

Changing my name and starting over again...

• Artist:Kenny Rogers
• Album:Gideon (1980)