{"id":12019,"date":"2014-06-21T02:15:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T02:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=12019"},"modified":"2020-03-30T14:55:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T14:55:48","slug":"chain-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=12019","title":{"rendered":"Chain Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2666&nbsp;&nbsp;The name of a song written and recorded by&nbsp;<strong><a title=\"Sam Cooke\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Cooke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Cooke<\/a><\/strong>. When released as a single in&nbsp;1960, the song performed very well, reaching #2 in the&nbsp;United States&nbsp;pop&nbsp;and&nbsp;R&amp;B&nbsp;charts, and #9 in the&nbsp;United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RmZdvVnMXCc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I&nbsp;hear&nbsp;somethin&#8217; sayin&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(Hooh! aah!) (hooh! aah!)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(Hooh! aah!) (hooh! aah!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(Well, don&#8217;t you know)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That&#8217;s the sound of the men working on the chain ga-a-ang<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That&#8217;s the sound of the men working on the chain gang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>All day long they&#8217;re singin&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(Hooh! aah!) (hooh! aah!)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(Hooh! aah!) (hooh! aah!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(Well, don&#8217;t you know)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That&#8217;s the sound of the men working on the chain ga-a-ang<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That&#8217;s the sound of the men working on the chain gang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>All day long they work so hard<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Till the sun is goin&#8217; down<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Working on the highways and byways<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And&nbsp;wearing,&nbsp;wearing&nbsp;a frown<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>You&nbsp;hear&nbsp;them moanin&#8217; their lives away<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Then you&nbsp;hear&nbsp;somebody sa-ay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>That&#8217;s the sound of the men working on the chain ga-a-ang<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That&#8217;s the sound of the men working on the chain gang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Can&#8217;t ya&nbsp;hear&nbsp;them singin&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mm, I&#8217;m goin&#8217; home one of these days<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I&#8217;m goin&#8217; home see&nbsp;my woman<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Whom I love so dear<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>But meanwhile I got to work right he-ere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(Well, don&#8217;t you know)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That&#8217;s the sound of the men working on the chain ga-a-ang<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That&#8217;s the sound of the men working on the chain gang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>All day long they&#8217;re singin&#8217;, mm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my work is so hard<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Give me water, I&#8217;m thirsty<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>My work is so hard<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2193 &nbsp;LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fnVsBXly428\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u221e&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CK3uf5V0pDA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00abBack on the Chain Gang\u00bb<\/a> &nbsp;\u2193 &nbsp;[London]<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A successful single by <strong>The Pretenders<\/strong> released in November 1982.&nbsp;The memorable chain-gang chant heard during the chorus echoes a similar chant on Sam Cooke&#8217;s song \u00ab<em>Chain Gang.\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UQ8kbordCAg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>I found a picture of you, oh oh oh<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What hijacked my world that night<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To a place in the past w<\/strong><strong>e&#8217;ve been cast out of, oh oh oh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now we&#8217;re back in the fight<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>We&#8217;re back on the train, hey<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Oh, back on the chain gang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A circumstance beyond our control, oh oh oh<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The phone, the TV and the news of the world<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Got in the house like a pigeon from hell, oh oh oh<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Threw sand in our eyes and descended like flies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Put us back on the train, yeah<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Oh, back on the chain gang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The powers that be &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>That force us to live like we do<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Bring me to my knees &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>When I see what they&#8217;ve done to you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But I&#8217;ll die as I stand here today, k<\/strong><strong>nowing that deep in my heart<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>They&#8217;ll fall to ruin one day f<\/strong><strong>or making us part<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I found a picture of you, oh oh oh<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Those were the happiest days of my life<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Like a break in the battle was your part, oh oh oh<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In the wretched life of a lonely heart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now we&#8217;re back on the train, yeah<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Oh, back on the chain gang<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2666&nbsp;&nbsp;The name of a song written and recorded by&nbsp;Sam Cooke. When released as a single in&nbsp;1960, the song performed very well, reaching #2 in the&nbsp;United States&nbsp;pop&nbsp;and&nbsp;R&amp;B&nbsp;charts, and #9 in the&nbsp;United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&nbsp;hear&nbsp;somethin&#8217; sayin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Hooh! aah!) (hooh! aah!) (Hooh! aah!) (hooh! aah!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Well, don&#8217;t you [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":12020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[102,313],"class_list":["post-12019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-songs","tag-lyrics","tag-america","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12019"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51192,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12019\/revisions\/51192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}