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289: 85: 241:, reading from his unfinished autobiography, recounts on Volume 6 of the compilation '"Doin' My Time" 1947-1963' that he wrote the country music classic "Doin' My Time" after reading the account of Robert Burns' imprisonment and escape in 102: 149: 326: 121: 370: 128: 201:
in the 1920s, his subsequent escape to New Jersey, and the furor that developed. The story was first published in January 1931, serialized in
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magazine. Later that year, Burns's story was adapted as the motion picture
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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang
Robert Elliott Burns
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