There Ain't No Good Chain Gang Chords by Johnny Cash

[Start]

[Verse]
Bb Bb7                               
■  ■   Bet it ain't raining back home
    Bb7                             
Bet your sister's still on the phone
Eb                         Bb            Gm     
Bet Momma's in the kitchen cooking fried chicken
G7      F                        Bb
Wishing that I hadn't done wrong ■ 
Bb                                        
Momma don't you worry about it none though
                          Bb7        
Everything's gonna be all right Momma
                      Bb                   Bb7       
They're teaching us a lot of new things in here Momma
Bb7        
Things like


[Chorus]
Bb                                         
There ain't no good in an evilhearted woman
Bb7       Bb                                
■   And I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James
        Eb                           Bb                 
And you don't go writing hot cheques down in Mississippi
                   Ab   Db    Bb   Eb
And there ain't no good chain gang ■ 


[Inst]

[Verse]
Bb                                
■  Papa's reading yesterday's mail
Bb                                
Wishing that the hay was all baled
Bb7 Eb                     Bb              
■   I bet he's awishing we could go fishing
    Eb        F              
And here I am alaying in jail
Bb   Bb7                                       
Well ■   Papa don't you worry about it none now
Bb7                                 
Everything's gonna be all right Papa
                               Bb7                               
They're teaching us a lesson a day we're learning pretty well too
              Bb7                                 
We've already learned a whole lot of stuff already
Bb7        
Things like


[Chorus]
               Bb                          
There ain't no good in an evilhearted woman
    Bb                                  
And I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James
        Eb                           Bb                 
And you don't go writing hot cheques down in Mississippi
    Eb          Ab Ab7        Bb  
And there ain't no good chain gang
               Bb                          
There ain't no good in an evilhearted woman
      Bb                                
And I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James
        Eb                           Bb                 
And you don't go writing hot cheques down in Mississippi
    Ab                        Bb  
And there ain't no good chain gang


[Inst]
Bb7 Eb Bb Db Eb7 Bb
■   ■  ■  ■  ■   ■ 


[Chorus]
            Bb                             
There ain't no good in an evilhearted woman
      Fm7              Bb7              
And I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James
        Eb                           Bb      Gm         
And you don't go writing hot cheques down in Mississippi
          Bb                  Bb7 
And there ain't no good chain gang


[Outro]
               Bb         Bb7              
There ain't no good in an evilhearted woman
                                   Bb   
And I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James
        Eb                           Bb                 
And you don't go writing hot cheques down in Mississippi
Gm                
■  And there ain't