Lucky Ball And Chain

LUCKY BALL & CHAIN by They Might Be Giants

[Each chord or dash represents one beat. Play a D6 chord like a D chord but

without fretting the B string (next to the bottom).]

G - Em - I lost my lucky ball & chain

C - D - And now she's four years gone

G - Em - Just five feet tall and sick of me

C - G - And all my rattling on

G - Em - She threw away her baby-doll

C - D - I held on to my pride

G - Em - But I was young and foolish then

C - G - I feel old and foolish now.

D6 - - x

C - - - G - - - Confidentially, she never called me baby-doll

C - - - G - - - Confidentially, I never had much pride

C - - - G - - - But now I rock a bar stool and I drink for two

D - C - D - - x Just pondering this time bomb in my mind.

2ND VERSE:

(Repeat first four lines of song)

G - Em - She walked away from a happy man.

C - D - I thought I was so cool.

G - Em - I just stood there whistling

C - D - "There goes the bride" as she walked out the

G - Em - door.

C - D - There goes the bride as she walked out the

G - Em - C - D door.

I could shake my tiny fist

And swear I wasn't wrong,

But what's the sense in arguing

When you're all alone?

Sure as you can't steer a train

You can't change your fate

When she told me off that day

I knew I'd lost my home.

Confidentially, I never told you of her charms.

Confidentially, we never had a home,

But this railroad apartment was the perfect place

When she'd sit and hold me in her arms.

(Repeat 2nd verse)