Forty years I've been gone
I served my time it's been so long
I took a life I know it was wrong
I served my time Lord knows I served my time
Shackled to a ball and chain
I worked in the snow I worked in the rain
I laid the track never rode the train
Forty years of suffering forty years of pain
I had a wife and a little queen
I've had a son I've never seen
All I have left now it seems
Is a broken heart and broken dreams
Shackled to a ball and chain
I worked in the snow I worked in the rain
I laid the track never rode the train
Forty years of suffering forty years of pain
Now I'm old, I've done my time
Ain't nothin left but to sit and pine
Nobody here even knows my name
I have no one but myself to blame
Shackled to a ball and chain
I worked in the snow I worked in the rain
I laid the track never rode the train
Forty years of suffering forty years of pain
Shackled to a ball and chain
I worked in the snow I worked in the rain
I laid the track never rode the train
Forty years of suffering forty years of pain
Forty years of suffering forty years of pain

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