Oh well the boss man cut my chains and set me free
Now I don't know, I don't know what will become of me
I don't know nothing except the way I live
And now I fear what will 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 it's been that way
And now the boss man cut my chains and he walked away
Now I can't write and I can't read, no, I had no school
And here I'm standing in a big world like a worn out mule
I don't know what it is gonna come now
Or what will be for me
Because the boss man, he cut my chains and he set me free
