There Ain't No Good Chain Gang

"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"
Single by Johnny Cash with Waylon Jennings
from the album I Would Like to See You Again
B-side"I Wish I Was Crazy Again"
ReleasedMay 20, 1978
GenreCountry
Length3:16
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Hal Bynum, Dave Kirby
Producer(s)Larry Butler
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"I Would Like to See You Again"
(1978)
"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"
(1978)
"Gone Girl"
(1978)
Waylon Jennings singles chronology
"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
(1978)
"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"
(1978)
"I've Always Been Crazy"
(1978)

"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" is a song written by Hal Bynum and Dave Kirby, and recorded by American country music artists Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. It was released in May 1978 as the second single from the album I Would Like to See You Again. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 76.