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The first line - "Cold iron shackles - ball and chain" - are on the narrator's leg.
In the chorus, he's asking to be carried back to Tennessee because he can't walk there.
The first line - "Cold iron shackles - ball and chain" - are on the narrator's leg.
In the chorus, he's asking to be carried back to Tennessee because he can't walk there.