These Chains

Rogers Kenny

These chains.

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 ...

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 ...

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  ...