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A chain gang is a system of labor (usually forced) that involves groups of prisoners chained together doing menial labor.

Chain gang may also refer to:

• Chain gang (cycling), a group of cyclists in a close-knit formation, normally for the purposes of training
• Chain crew or chain gang, the officials on the sidelines of an American football game who carry the first-down indicators connected by chains
• Chain ganging, an elevated probability for inter-state conflict

Literature

• "Chain Gang", a 1978 poem by Patti Smith from Babel

Film, radio and television

• The Chain Gang, a 1930 film by Walt Disney starring Mickey Mouse
• Chain Gang (1950 film), a film by Lew Landers and starring Douglas Kennedy
• Chain Gang (1984 film), a 3D film
• The Chain Gang (radio series), a British radio series
• "Chain Gang" (Only Fools and Horses), an episode of Only Fools and Horses

Music

• Chain Gang (band), an experimental punk rock band from New York City
• "Chain Gang" (song), a 1960 song by Sam Cooke
• ""Chain Gang" (1955 song)", recorded by Bobby Scott and Jimmy Young
• "Chain Gang", a song by the Blue Hearts on the b-side of "Kiss Shite Hoshii"
• The Chain Gang, a Scottish charity supergroup who released the 1987 single "Makin' Tracks"

See also

• "Back on the Chain Gang", a song by the Pretenders
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, a 1932 American film
• "Livin' on a Chain Gang", a song by Skid Row
• The Chain Gang of 1974, an indietronica project of Kamtin Mohager