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Version 1Capo 1st Fret The pull-on-offy stuff is fairly intuitive, basically it centers around the top two and involves a pull off on the B string: 0-1-3 between the G and C chords, and that same reverse a hammer on: 0-1-3, before you play the G chord. Listen to it and you'll get feel of it. The actual chord figuring out was the tricky part for me and I am not sure the G/C or the G/Dish chord that I transcribed, but it works. G/Dish -0- -3- -2- -0- -2- -0- G C G I got rid of the shackles that bound me G G/C D and the guards that were always around me G C G There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail G G/Dish G But I'm free from the chain gang now G C G All the years I was known and respected G G/C D 'til one day I was wrongly suspected G C G I was shackled in chains in a cold freezin' rain G G/Dish G but I'm free from the chain gang now [Guitar] G C G All the years I was known by a number G G/C D how I kept my mind is a wonder G C G But like a bird in a tree I got my liberty G G/Dish G and I'm free from the chain gang now G C G I got rid of the shackles that bound me G G/C D and the guards that were always around me G C G There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail G G/Dish G But I'm free from the chain gang now G C G There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail G G/Dish G But I'm free from the chain gang now Tabbed by Jeremy John