Big Brother & The Holding Company ft. Janis Joplin – Ball And Chain Chords

These are the chords for Ball And Chain by Big Brother & The Holding Company with Janis Joplin on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard
[Intro Solo]
F#m     Bm      F#m     F#m
Bm      Bm      F#m     F#m 
C#7     Bm      F#m Bm  C#7

[Verse 1]
F#m
Sitting down by my window
Bm                 F#m
Honey, looking out at the rain
Bm
Lord, Lord, Lord, sitting 
down by my window
                  F#m
Baby, looking out at the rain
C#7                   
Something came along, 
          C7      Bm
grabbed a hold of me
           A5     G#5 
And it felt just like 
            F#m
a ball and chain
Bm
Honey, that\'s exactly 
what it felt like
C#7
Honey, just dragging me down

[Verse 2]
F#m                        
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, 
                 Bm
now hun, tell me why
Why does every single little 
           F#m
tiny thing I hold on goes wrong?
Yeah it all goes wrong, yeah
               Bm
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, 
now babe, tell me why
         F#m
Why does every thing, every thing
     C#7                 C7 
Hey, here you gone today,   
Bm
I wanted to love you
Honey, I just wanted to hold 
                    F#m
you, I said, for so long
Bm    C7
Yeah! Alright! Hey!

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[Verse 3]
F#m
Love\'s got a hold on me, baby
Bm    F#m
Feels     just like a ball 
and chain
Bm
Now, love\'s just dragging 
me down, baby, yeah
             F#m
Feels like a ball and chain
C#7                        
I hope there\'s someone out 
                        C7
there who could tell me
Bm                       
Why the man I love wants 
                       F#m
to leave me in so much pain
     Bm                      
Yeah, maybe, maybe you could 
         C#7
help me, come on, help me!

[Verse 4]
F#m                        
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, 
                 Bm
now hun, tell me why
Now tell me, tell me, 
tell me, tell me, 
         F#m
tell me, tell me why, yeah
           Bm
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, 
whoa, when I ask you
       F#m
When I need to know why, 
come on tell me why, hey hey hey
C#7                     C7
Hear you\'ve gone today
Bm
I wanted to love you and hold you
                F#m
Until the day I die
Bm     C#7
I said whoa, whoa, whoa!!

[Solo]
F#m     Bm      F#m     F#m
Bm      Bm      F#m     F#m 
C#7     Bm      F#m Bm  C#7

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[Verse 5]
          F#m
And I say oh, whoa, whoa, 
no honey
         Bm             
It isn\'t fair, daddy it 
                F#m
isn\'t fair what you do
I see what you\'re doing to 
me and you know it isn\'t fair
              Bm
And I say oh, whoa whoa now baby
It isn\'t fair, now, 
          F#m
now, now, what you do
I said hun it isn\'t fair what, 
hun it isn\'t fair what you do
   C#7                      
Oh, hear you gone today and 
   C7 Bm
all I ever wanted to do
       F#m
Was to love you
Bm
Honey and I think there can 
be nothing wrong with that
C#7
Only it isn\'t wrong, 
no, no, no, no, no

[Verse 6]
F#m
Sitting down by my window
Bm                 F#m
Honey, looking out at the rain
Bm
Lord, Lord, Lord, 
sitting down by my window
                  F#m
Baby, looking out at the rain
C#7                   
Something came along, 
          C7      Bm
grabbed a hold of me
           A5    G#5
And it felt like a 
          F#m
ball and chain
        Bm
Yes, it did babe,
And I\'m gonna tell you 
     C#7
this one more time, hey, hey

[Verse 7/Ending]
         F#m
And I say oh, 
whoa whoa, now baby
           Bm  
This can\'t be, 
                 F#m
no this can\'t be in vain
And I say no no no no 
no no no no, whoa!
          Bm
And I say whoa, whoa, 
whoa, whoa, whoa
                    F#m
Now now now now now now now 
now now, no no, not in vain
     C#7                   
Hey, hope there is someone 
                   C7
that could tell me
Bm
Hun, tell me why
N.C.
Hun, tell me why love is like
Just like a ball
Just like a ball
Ball
Oh daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, 
daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy
And a chain
F#m
Yeah!

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