| lyric | 1. It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
I’m worried now but I won’t be worried long.
2. I went across the river and I lay down to sleep, (3 x)
When I woke up, there were shackles on my feet.
3. Twenty-nine links of chain around my leg, (3 x)
And on each link the initial of my name.
4. I asked thejudge what might be my fine. (3 x)
Twenty-one years on the R. C. Mountain Line.
5. Twenty-one years to pay my awful crime, (3 x)
Twenty-one years — but I got ninety-nine.
6. This train that] ride, is sixteen coaches long, (3 x)
The girl I love is on that train and gone.
7. I looked down the track as far as I could see, (3 x)
Little bitty hand was waving after me.
8. If anyone should ask you who composed this song, (3 x)
Just say it was I, I sing it all day long.
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