Boss Man Cut My Chains

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 I fear what would come to be

Oh 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 big world

Like a worn out mule

I don’t know what is going to come now

Or what will be from me

Because the boss man cut my chains

And he set me free