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!