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Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song: Lucky Ball and Chain
Album: Flood
Verse 1:
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 ( a D with a muted B string )
Chorus:
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
Just pondering this time bomb in my mind.
Verse 2:
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 walked away from a happy man.
C D
I thought I was so cool.
G Em
I just stood there whistling
C D G Em
"There goes the bride" as she walked out the door
C D G Em C D
There goes the bride as she walked out the door
Bridge: ( Noise )
Verse 3:
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.
D6
Chorus:
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)
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 walked away from a happy man.
C D
I thought I was so cool.
G Em
I just stood there whistling
C D G Em
"There goes the bride" as she walked out the door
C D G Em
There goes the bride as she walked out the door
C D G Em C D
There goes the bride as she walked out the door
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Christina Average |
#1 by Christina Anderson at Jul 7, 1972 at 1:07 PM EST |
| I always thought I was a divorce, referring his wife to "ball and chain" but it just hit me that he could be going to jail. How they used to wear those ball chained to their ankles. and she wont take him back when he gets out of jail I could shake my tiny fist and say I wasn't wrong what's the sense of arguing when your all alone like what's the use in fighting in the courts becuase he's lost everthing, so what does it matter if he goes to jail, seeing as he's lost him home anyways. | |
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Celebrimbor Rhythm Player |
#2 by Celebrimbor Calaelen at Jan 12, 1990 at 11:34 AM EST |
| This is actually my favorite tmbg song. Partly because I don't know too much of them,but mainly because this is the one where they actualy make sense, without needing to read their site. He speaks about his girlfriend (ball&chain), who left him because she couldn't stand his blabbering and weirdness. And he is angry with her for that, but mostly he hates himself, and thinking he doesn't deserve her. | |
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Chris Rhythm Player |
#3 by Chris Pray at Jun 14, 1998 at 4:02 AM EST |
| I could shake my tiny fist and swear I wasn't wrong But what's the sense in arguing when you're all alone? I just love those words :) Great song! | |
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