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There Ain't No Good Chain Gang

"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"
Single by Johnny Cash with Waylon Jennings
from the album I Would Like to See You Again
B-side "I Wish I Was Crazy Again"
Released May 20, 1978
Genre Country
Length 3:16
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Hal Bynum, Dave Kirby
Producer(s) Larry Butler
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"I Would Like to See You Again"
(1978)
"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"
(1978)
"Gone Girl"
(1978)
"I Would Like to See You Again"
(1978)
"There Ain't No Chain Gang"
(1978)
"Gone Girl"
(1978)
Waylon Jennings singles chronology
"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
(1978) Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys1978
"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"
(1978) There Ain't No Good Chain Gang1978
"I've Always Been Crazy"
(1978) I've Always Been Crazy1978

"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" is a song written by Hal Bynum and Dave Kirby, and recorded by American country music artists Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. It was released in May 1978 as the second single from the album I Would Like to See You Again. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

The song is written and sung from the perspective of a prison inmate, writing back home to his family. He tells of the lessons he's learned while incarcerated; the chorus tells the four main ones:


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