Ball And Chain original guitar chords by 
Big Brother & The Holding CompanyJanis Joplin 
Key: F# minor
Intro 1
F#m
Bm
F#m
F#m
Bm
Bm
F#m
F#m
C#m
Bm
F#m
Bm
C#7
Verse 1
F#m
Bm
Sitting down by the window
Lord, lord, lord
A
G#
F#m
And it felt just like a ball and chain
Chorus 1
Why does every single little tiny thing
Yeah it all goes wrong, yeah
now babe, tell me why
Honey, I just wanted to hold you,
F#m
Bm
I said, for so long
Verse 2
F#m
Bm
Love's got a hold on me, baby
baby, yeah
who could tell me
Bm
C#7
Yeah, maybe, maybe you could help me,
come on, help me!
Chorus 2
Now tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me,
Bm
And I'll say, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
when I ask you
come on tell me why, hey hey hey
F#m
Bm
Until the day I die
Solo 1
F#m
Bm
F#m
F#m
Bm
Bm
F#m
F#m
C#m
Bm
F#m
Bm
C#7
Chorus 3
F#m
And I'll say oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, now hun
Bm
F#m
It ain't fair, now daddy it ain't fair what you do
I said honey what you're doing to me
and you know it ain't fair
Bm
And I'll say, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, now baby
F#m
It ain't fair, now, now, now, what you do
I said hun it ain't what,
hun it ain't fair what you do
C#7
there can't be nothing wrong with that
Verse 3
Honey it ain't wrong, no, no, no, no, no
F#m
Bm
Sitting down by the window
Sitting down by the window
A
G#
F#m
And it felt like a ball and chain
Chorus 4
now baby
Bm
F#m
This can't be, no this can't be in vain
And I say no no no no no no no no, whoa!
Now now now now
F#m
now now now, now, now, no no, not in vain
Oh, 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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