These Chains

Kenny Rogers

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  ...