100% correct.
Capo on 7th fret.
You can figure out the picking its not that hard, but it sounds just fine strumming the chords.
[Chorus]
Take em away Take em away Lord, Take away these chains from me.
My heart is broken cause my spirits not free, Lord take away these chains
from me.
[Verse]
Some bird feathers are too bright to be caged, I know i m not that
colorful, but a bird just the same.
Open up your gate now let me put down my load, so i can feel at ease and
go back to my home.
[Chorus]
Take em away Take em away Lord, Take away these chains from me.
My heart is broken cause my spirits not free, Lord take away these chains
from me.
[Verse]
Sun beatin down my legs cant seem to stand, theres a boss man at a turnrow
with a rifle in his hand.
I ve got nine children, nothin in the pan. My wife she died hungry while i
was plowin land.
[Chorus]
Take em away Take em away Lord, Take away these chains from me.
My heart is broken cause my spirits not free, Lord take away these chains
from me.
[Verse]
Cant see when i go to work, cant see when i get off. How do you expect a man
not to get lost.
Every year i just keep getting deeper in debt, if theres a happy day Lord
I havent seen one yet.
[Chorus]
Take em away Take em away Lord, Take away these chains from me.
My heart is broken cause my spirits not free, Lord take away these chains
from me.
[Verse]
Land that i love is the land that i m workin , but its hard to love it all
the time when your back is a hurtin .
Gettin too old now to push this here plow, let me lay down so i can look at
the clouds.
[Chorus]
Take em away Take em away Lord, Take away these chains from me.
My heart is broken cause my spirits not free, Lord take away these chains
from me.
[Verse]
The land that i know is where to rivers collide, the Brazos, the Navaso and
the big blue sky.
Flood plains, freight trains, watermelon vines
Of any place on Godâs green earth, this is where I choose to die
[Chorus]
Take em away Take em away Lord, Take away these chains from me.
My heart is broken cause my spirits not free, Lord take away these chains
from me.