I lost my lucky ball & chain
and now she’s four years gone
Just five feet
Tall and sick of me
and all my rattling on
She threw away her baby-doll /
I held on to my pride
But I was young and foolish then
I feel old and
Foolish now
Comfidentally-
she never called me baby-doll
Confidentially-
/ I never had much pride
But now I rock a bar stool
and I drink for two
Just pondering this time bomb in my mind
She walked away from a happy man /
I thought I was so cool
I just stood there whistling
«There goes the bride»
/ as she walked out the 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