There Ain't No Good Chain Gang (song)

There Ain't No Good Chain Gang is a country song performed by Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.

The song is sung from a first-person account of a prison inmate, who recounts the "lessons" he's learned while incarcerated, as mentioned in the chorus: "There ain't no good in an evil-hearted woman, and I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James, and you don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi, and there ain't no good chain gang".