Well the boss man cut my chains
And set me free now I don't know
I don't know what will come of me
I don't know nothing except the
Way I live now the boss man cut
My chains and set me free
My father was a working slave
Just like me you learn to keep
Your head down don't look to see
What's going on all around you
All my life been that way now the
Boss man cut my chains and he
Walk away
Now I can't write and I can't read
I have no school and here I'm
Standing in the world like a worn
Out mule i don't know what is going
To come now or what will be well now
The boss man cut my chains says
Him free
What can I do what's going to
Become of me i don't know nothing
Except these working fields I see
Oh now I'm standing on the outside
With a fear inside me now the boss
Man cut my chains and said I'm free
