On the 12th of August 2021, the track was released. The track was written by Big Mama Thornton.
Track Info
- Song: Ball And Chain
- Artist: Big Brother & The Holding Company with Janis Joplin
- Produced by John Simon
- Album: Cheap Thrills
- Released Date: 12 August 1968
Chords Info
- Tuning: Standard(E A D G B E)
- Key: Bm
- Chords: F#m, Bm, C#7, C7, A5, G#5
- BPM: 81
- Suggested Strumming:
- D= Down Stroke, U = Upstroke, N.C= No Chord
| Guitar Chords | Ukulele Chords |
| F#m – 244222 Bm – x24432 C#7 – x43404 C7 – x32310 A5 – x02xxx G#5 – 46xxxx | F#m – 2120 Bm – 4222 C#7 – 1112 C7 – 0001 A5 – xx00 G#5 – 13xx |
[Solo]
F#m Bm F#m F#m
Bm Bm F#m F#m
C#7 Bm F#m Bm C#7
[Verse]
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 C7 Bm
Something came along, grabbed a hold of me
A5 G#5 F#m
And it felt just like a ball and chain
Bm
Honey, that's exactly what it felt like
C#7
Honey, just dragging me down
[Verse]
F#m Bm
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, now hun, tell me why
Why does every single little tiny thing
F#m
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
Hey, here you gone today,
C7 Bm
I wanted to love you
Honey, I just wanted to hold you,
F#m
I said, for so long
Bm C7
Yeah! Alright! Hey!
[Verse]
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
C7
out there who could tell me
Bm
Why the man I love wants to
F#m
leave me in so much pain
Bm
Yeah, maybe, maybe you could help me,
C#7
come on, help me!
[Verse]
F#m Bm
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, now hun, tell me why
F#m
Now tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, 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
[Verse]
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
F#m
It isn't fair, now, 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]
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 C7 Bm
Something came along, grabbed a hold of me
A5 G#5 F#m
And it felt like a ball and chain
Bm
Yes, it did babe,
And I'm gonna tell you this
C#7
one more time, hey, hey
[Verse]
F#m
And I say oh, whoa whoa, 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!
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
C7
someone 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!
