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GUEST,Barry Origins: He Had a Long Chain On (Jimmie Driftwood) (31) RE: Origins: He Had a Long Chain On (Jimmie Driftwood) 14 Sep 16

I think the long chain is metaphor, a physical burden resulting from the sins a man committed in this life. A similar imagery is used in A Christmas Carol when Jacob Marley appears to Scrooge and tells he wears the chain he forged in life, link by link, yard by yard, for the sins he committed in life of greed, and that the chain they are preparing for Scrooge is much longer.

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