Worried Man Blues

I went across the river I lay down to sleep I went across the river I lay down to sleep When I woke up Had shackles on my feet It takes a worried man To sing a worried song It takes a worried man To sing a worried song I'm worried now But I won't be worried long Twenty-one links Of chain around my leg Twenty-one links Of chain around my leg And on each link 'S an initial of my name I asked that judge What's gonna be my fine I asked that judge What's gonna be my fine Twenty-one years On the Rocky Mountain line That train pulled out Twenty-one coaches long That train pulled out Twenty-one coaches long And the woman I love Is on that train and gone Twenty-one years Pay my awful crime Twenty-one years Pay my awful crime Tweny-one years And I still got ninety-nine