Forty Years Of Trouble Chords

[Intro]
A D A E
A D A A A
 
 
[Verse 1]
A                     D
Forty years I’ve been gone
            A                 E
I served my time it’s been so long
         A                  D
I took a life I know it was wrong
             A         E            A
I served my time lord knows I’m going home
 
 
[Chorus]
         A             D
Shackled to a ball and chain
                A                    E
I worked in the snow I worked in the rain
           A                     D
I laid the tracks never rode the train
               A        E               A
Forty years of suffering forty years of pain
 
 
[Interlude]
A D A E
A D A A A
 
 
[Verse 2]
        A                 D
I had a wife and a little queen
           A              E
I’ve had a son I’ve never seen
           A           D
All I have left now it seems
            A    E           A
Is a broken heart and broken dreams
        A
Now I’m old, I’ve done my time
 
 
[Chorus]
         A             D
Shackled to a ball and chain
                A                    E
I worked in the snow I worked in the rain
           A                     D
I laid the tracks never rode the train
               A        E               A
Forty years of suffering forty years of pain
 
 
[Interlude]
A D A E
A D A A A
 
 
[Verse 3]
        A                  D
Now I’m old, I’ve done my time
             A                   E
Ain’t nothin left but to sit and pine
       A                  D
Nobody here even knows my name
          A  E              A
I have no one but myself to blame
 
 
[Chorus]
         A             D
Shackled to a ball and chain
                A                    E
I worked in the snow I worked in the rain
           A                     D
I laid the tracks never rode the train
               A        E               A
Forty years of suffering forty years of pain
 
 
[Interlude]
A D A E
A D A E A
 
 
[Chorus]
         A             D
Shackled to a ball and chain
                A                    E
I worked in the snow I worked in the rain
           A                     D
I laid the tracks never rode the train
               A        E               A
Forty years of suffering forty years of pain
               A        E               A
Forty years of suffering forty years of pain