Chain Gang Special

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Chain Gang Special-Watts & Wilson
Wilmer Watts, banjo and vocals, Frank Wilson, guitar and vocals, Charles Freshour, guitar in G position, standard tuning
NOTE:Vocal response lines on the refrain are shown parenthetically.

I wish I was in Mobile, at some swell hotel
With a New York paper in my hand, just sportin' to my dear
I'd march around to Cuby, I'd take a trip to Spain
I'd drive back down to Belmont and try that Chief again

REFRAIN: Big nigger, won't you roll down the line? Roll down the line
Yonder comes my darlin', roll down line (keep it rollin')
Won't you roll down the line? (roll on) roll down the line
Yonder comes my darlin', roll down line.

SOLO

If you lay around old Belmont, and call yourself a sport
In fifteen minutes they'll arrest you, and bind you over to court
You'll get up in the courthouse, and listen to the lawyer's slang
The first captain says, "You big black nigger, I need you on my gang."

REFRAIN: Big nigger, won't you roll down the line? Roll down the line
Yonder comes my darlin', roll down line (keep it rollin')
Won't you roll down the line? (roll on) roll down the line
Yonder comes my darlin', roll down line.

SOLO

Every morning 'fore day, they loose you off a chain
They come right soon to the white folks, and treat them just the same
And then it's when they feed you, they feed you out of a blue pan
And when you get through eating, it's, "Get to shovelling sand."

REFRAIN: Big nigger, won't you roll down the line? Roll down the line
Yonder comes my darlin', roll down line (keep it rollin')
Won't you roll down the line? (roll on) roll down the line
Yonder comes my darlin', roll down line.

SOLO

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