<Tr> <Td> "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" (1978) Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys 1978 </Td> <Td> "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" (1978) There Ain't No Good Chain Gang1978 </Td> <Td> "I've Always Been Crazy" (1978) I've Always Been Crazy 1978 </Td> </Tr> <P> "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 . </P> <P> The song is written and sung from the perspective of a prison inmate, writing back home to his family . He tells of the lessons he's learned while incarcerated; the chorus tells the four main ones: </P> <Ol> <Li> "There ain't no good in an evil - hearted woman", </Li> <Li> "I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James", </Li> <Li> "You don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi", and </Li> <Li> "There ain't no good chain gang". </Li> </Ol>

You don't go writing hot checks down in mississippi