{"id":29087,"date":"2026-01-11T22:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=29087"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:18:52","slug":"there-aint-no-good-chain-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/there-aint-no-good-chain-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang\"\r\nAS performed by Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings\r\n \r\n[Intro]\r\n| Bb<\/span> | % | %  |% |\r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\nBb<\/span>\r\nBet it ain't raining back home,\r\nBb<\/span>\r\nBet you sister's still on the phone,\r\n    Eb<\/span>                     Bb<\/span>            G<\/span>\r\nBet momma's in the kitchen cooking fried chicken,\r\nEb<\/span>             F<\/span>           Bb<\/span>\r\nWishing that I hadn't done wrong\r\n \r\n[Pre-chorus]\r\nBb<\/span>\r\nMomma, don't you worry about it none though,\r\nBb<\/span>\r\nEverything's gonna be alright, momma,\r\nBb<\/span>\r\nThey're teaching us a lot of new things in here, momma,\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nBb<\/span>\r\nThings like there ain't no good in an evil hearted woman,\r\nBb<\/span>\r\nAnd I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James,\r\nBb<\/span>       Eb<\/span>                          Bb<\/span>            G<\/span>\r\nAnd you don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi,\r\n           Eb<\/span>   Db<\/span> Bb<\/span>    Ab<\/span>   Bb<\/span>\r\nAnd there ain't no good chain gang.\r\n \r\n[Solo]\r\n| Bb<\/span> | Eb<\/span> | Bb<\/span> | G<\/span>  |\r\n| Eb<\/span> | Db<\/span> | Bb<\/span> | Ab<\/span> |\r\n| Bb<\/span> |  % | %  | %  |\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nBb<\/span>\r\nPapa's reading yesterday's mail,\r\nBb<\/span>\r\nWishing that the hay was all bailed,\r\n     Eb                 Bb           G\r\nWell I bet he's wishing he could go fishing,\r\n     Eb         F          Bb\r\nAnd here I am a'lazing in jail.\r\n \r\n[Pre-chorus]\r\nBb\r\nWell, papa, don't you worry about it none,\r\nBb\r\nNow, everything's gonna be alright, papa,\r\nBb\r\nThey're teaching us a lesson today,\r\nBb\r\nWe're learning pretty well too,\r\nBb\r\nWe've already learned a whole lot of stuff already\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nBb\r\nThings like there ain't no good in an evil hearted woman,\r\nBb\r\nAnd I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James,\r\n        Eb                           Bb             G\r\nAnd you don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi,\r\n           Eb   Db Bb    Ab   Bb\r\nAnd there ain't no good chain gang.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nBb\r\nThere ain't no good in an evil hearted woman,\r\nBb\r\nAnd I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James,\r\n        Eb                           Bb             G\r\nAnd you don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi,\r\n           Eb   Db Bb    Ab   Bb\r\nAnd there ain't no good chain gang.\r\n \r\n[Solo]\r\n| Bb | Eb | Bb | G  |\r\n| Eb | Db | Bb | Ab |\r\n| Bb |\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nBb\r\nThere ain't no good in an evil hearted woman,\r\nBb\r\nAnd I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James,\r\n        Eb                           Bb             G\r\nAnd you don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi,\r\n           Eb   Db Bb    Ab   Bb\r\nAnd there ain't no good chain gang.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nBb\r\nThere ain't no good in an evil hearted woman,\r\nBb\r\nAnd I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James,\r\n        Eb                           Bb             G\r\nAnd you don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi,\r\n           Eb   Db Bb    Ab   Bb\r\nAnd there ain't no good chain gang.\r\n
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Tuning: E A D G B ECapo: no capo “There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang” AS performed by Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings [Intro] | Bb | % | % |% | [Verse 1] Bb Bet it ain’t raining back home, Bb Bet you sister’s still on the phone, Eb … CLICK TO VIEW SONGThere Ain’t No Good Chain Gang<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29088,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29087\/revisions\/29088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}