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...