There Ain't No Good Chain Gang
| "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" | ||||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
| Label | Columbia | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Hal Bynum, Dave Kirby | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Larry Butler | |||||||||
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"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 as a duet. 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.[1]
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:
- "There ain't no good in an evil-hearted woman",
- "I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James",
- "You don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi", and
- "There ain't no good chain gang".
Chart performance
| Chart (1978) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks | 2 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 5 |
References
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 76.
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