They Might Be Giants – Lucky Ball And Chain (Guitar)

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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      D        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       D       G
I feel old and foolish now
D6 [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    N.C.
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      D        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
There goes the bride as she walked out the door
[Bridge] (Noise) [Verse 3]
G                Em
I could shake my tiny fist

    C              D
And swear I wasn't wrong

    G                   Em
But what's the sense in arguing

C           D    G
When you're all alone?

G                 Em
Sure as you can't steer a train

C                     D
You can't change your fate

    G                Em
And when she told me off that day

  C        D       G
I knew I'd lost my home
D6 [Chorus]
     C                           G
Confidentially, I never told you of her charms

     C                         G
Confidentially, we never had a home

    C                               G
But this railroad apartment was the perfect place

D                  C              D    N.C.
When she'd sit and hold me in her arms
[Verse 4]
  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      D        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
[Outro]
G  Em  C  D
(repeat and fade out)