He can love any woman he sees he can stay as late as he please He can take a nice walk in the rain if he can do it on six feet of chain Six feet of chain six feet of chain he's a prisoner on six feet of chain He can climb up a mountain so high he can run he can jump he can fly He can have plenty fortune and fame if he can do it on six feet of chain Six feet of chain six feet of chain he's a prisoner on six feet of chain He can go if he wants to go he can stay if he wants to stay He can go crazy or stay saint if he can do it on six feet of chain Six feet of chain six feet of chain he's a prisoner on six feet of chain ********** (There's people livin' in Trouble that'll tell you that Trouble wasn't nothin' No sir nothin' nothin' but a little town that is until we got our railroad And of course there's people livin' in Trouble today That'll tell you since we got our railroad We're still nothin' with a railroad runnin' thru it In fact about the easiest way to start an argument Is to say something either for or against the railroad I don't have nothin' against the railroad or the men that work for it As far as I've been able to find out they're hard working Hard drinking hard dying men they're pretty hard fightin' too I guess about the only thing they can't whip is each other)