Am I was sittin' beside the r G oad in Black Jack Am County.
not knowing that that the G Sheriff paid a E bounty,
for Am men like me that G didn't have a F penny to their Am name.
So he locked my leg to G 35 pounds of Am Black Jack E County Am Chains.
And all we had to G eat was bread and Am water,
and each day we built the G road a mile and a E quarter,
a Am Black Snake Whip, would G cut our back, when F some poor Fool co Am mplained,
but we couldn't fight back wearing G 35 pounds of Am Black Jack Co E unty Ch Am ains.
One night while the S G heriff was a s Am leeping,
we all gathered r G ound him slowly c E reeping,
and H Am eaven help me G to forget that F night in the cold cold Am rain,
when we beat him to death with G 35 pounds of Am Black Jack E County C Am hains.
now the whip marks are all healed and I'm thankful,
there's nothing but the scar around my ankle.
but most of all I'm glad no man will be a slave again,
to a Black Snake Whip, and 35 pounds of Black Jack County Chain.
Willie Nelson
