Lucky Ball And Chain chords by They Might Be Giants

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.

B7 Give it a listen to get the strum down.:


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
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 (strum 3 times and pause for a 1-beat rest.)
There goes the bride as she walked out the door


Bridge:
[h = hammer on, but in live performances, he often just plucks them individually. The D7 moving up 3 frets is
how they play it live; it's a little different on the album recording.]

             (D7)
e|-------------|-2-2-2-2-5-5-5-5-8-8-8-8-11-11-11-11-|-2-2-2-2-5-5-5-5-8-8-8-8-11------|
B|-------------|-1-1-1-1-4-4-4-4-7-7-7-7-10-10-10-10-|-1-1-1-1-4-4-4-4-7-7-7-7-10------|
G|-------------|-2-2-2-2-5-5-5-5-8-8-8-8-11-11-11-11-|-2-2-2-2-5-5-5-5-8-8-8-8-11------|
D|---------0h2-|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
A|-----0h2-----|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|--3----------|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------|


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
When she told me off that day
C          D       G
I knew I'd lost my home.


B7


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
Just pondering this time bomb in my mind.


Repeat 2nd verse:
   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              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
There goes the bride as she walked out the door.


[The song fades out on the album; in the live performances they usually end on G. I like to end by strumming