At the rear stood a small chain-gang of criminals who had opted for the army rather than remain in prison.

The song was inspired after a chance meeting with an actual chain-gang of prisoners on a highway, seen while Sam was on tour.

After washing up, the majority would shuffle past the mess counter like a sullen, dull-eyed chain-gang of Mutes.

In the "Chain-Gang" section, announced by crashes of heavy metal, the orchestra engages in collective improvisation.

"Chain-Gang Smile"

The Hollywood arc would have a chain-gang of Congressmen breaking rocks by the final reel, but we are unlikely to get such satisfaction outside of celluloid.

The story in this version is retrospectively narrated by Dragline, the hardened member of a Florida chain-gang who recalls the inspirational presence of Luke Jackson.

He is reported, by Aaron Price, a convict turned Constable and Overseer, to have replaced the chain-gang's heavy irons with light irons, and encouraged the breaking of land for agriculture.

More Republican governors - including George Pataki of New York and Charlie Crist of Florida (affectionately known as "Chain-Gang Charlie" for his early views on penal policy) - pioneered action to combat climate change.

While I hold no particular brief for the Stuart Rosenberg movie, which Pauline Kael dismissed as "a tearjerker for hip high-school students", the stage version cannot compete with it on one simple level: the evocation of a chain-gang's sufferings under a scorching Florida sun.

Directly ahead of me in the chain gang was a young woman.

Most people look at an afternoon doing any of those as one step above working on a chain gang.

The bit about the chain gang was just a joke, though.

Make them do a proper job on a chain gang.

Spending over 18 hours with it would be - well, not so bad as a month on a chain gang.

Alabama has not had chain gangs for more than 30 years.

And, officially at least, they will not be known as chain gangs.

The home club provides the chain gangs for each side.

She cited the return of chain gangs as an example.

"But I thought you wanted to hear my adventures with the chain gang!"

"I heard he'd once been on a chain gang in the South.

"Each team has their own ball boys and chain gang," he said.

A small charge could put a colored person on the chain gang for 6 months maybe more.

Part of the construction work was executed by a chain gang.

In real life, chain gangs had been abolished a long time ago.

Several states have followed Alabama's lead in starting chain gangs.

Take the chain gang, whose members can measure 10 yards in their sleep.

He gets put on the chain gang, as an alternative to being sentenced to death.

Machines did some of the work, but mainly the chain gang used their hands.

At least the inmates on chain gangs got to make up their own work songs.

Various claims as to the purpose of chain gangs have been offered.

He also ended the state's harsh system of prison chain gangs.

A chain gang from the penitentiary helped clear the site.

A chain gang of inmates did not have a choice about digging.

He's saving his best friend from a bullet, even if it means several years on a chain gang for him.