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)