Ball and Chain

Ball and Chain Lyrics

Song Ball and Chain
Artist Janis Joplin
Album Janis Joplin - Box Of Pearls (1999 Legacy 5CD Remaster)
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[01:04.34] Sitting down by my window
[01:08.78] Honey, looking out at the rain
[01:18.12] Lord, Lord, Lord, sitting down by my window
[01:26.28] Baby, looking out at the rain
[01:37.98] Something came along, grabbed a hold of me
[01:42.19] And it felt just like a ball and chain
[01:47.90] Honey, that's exactly what it felt like
[01:50.74] Honey, just dragging me down
[01:52.95] And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, now hun, tell me why
[01:59.83] Why does every single little tiny thing I hold on goes wrong?
[02:07.50] Yeah it all goes wrong, yeah
[02:11.18] And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, now babe, tell me why
[02:17.91] Why does every thing, every thing
[02:29.51] Hey, here you gone today, I wanted to love you
[02:36.07] Honey, I just wanted to hold you, I said, for so long
[02:42.00] Yeah! Alright! Hey!
[02:48.87] Love's got a hold on me, baby
[02:53.56] Feels just like a ball and chain
[03:04.37] Now, love's just dragging me down, baby, yeah
[03:12.09] Feels like a ball and chain
[03:23.32] I hope there's someone out there who could tell me
[03:26.68] Why the man I love wants to leave me in so much pain
[03:33.58] Yeah, maybe, maybe you could help me, come on, help me!
[03:38.61] And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, now hun, tell me why
[03:44.99] Now tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me why, yeah
[03:56.08] And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, when I ask you
[04:05.57] When I need to know why, come on tell me why, hey hey hey
[04:16.94] Here you've gone today
[04:19.39] I wanted to love you and hold you
[04:22.83] Until the day I die
[04:28.47] I said whoa, whoa, whoa!!
[05:24.90] And I say oh, whoa, whoa, no honey
[05:29.97] It isn't fair, daddy it isn't fair what you do
[05:38.43] I see what you're doing to me and you know it isn't fair
[05:42.66] And I say oh, whoa whoa now baby
[05:47.44] It isn't fair, now, now, now, what you do
[05:55.16] I said hun it isn't fair what, hun it isn't fair what you do
[05:59.89] Oh, here you gone today and all I ever wanted to do
[06:08.76] Was to love you
[06:12.89] Honey and I think there can be nothing wrong with that
[06:15.59] Only it isn't wrong, no, no, no, no, no
[07:10.90] And I say oh, whoa whoa, now baby
[07:15.76] This can't be, no this can't be in vain
[07:22.62] And I say no no no no no no no no, whoa!
[07:28.20] And I say whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
[07:36.41] Now now now now now now now now now, no no, not in vain
[07:46.27] Hey, hope there is someone that could tell me
[07:50.81] Hun, tell me why
[07:55.44] Hun, tell me why love is like
[08:02.85] Just like a ball
[08:08.51] Just like a ball
[08:16.57] Ball
[08:20.94] Oh daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy
[08:29.36] And a chain
[08:45.94] Yeah!
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