Ball And Chain Lyrics - Big Mama Thornton: The Complete Vanguard Recordings - Big Mama Thornton

S-sitting down by my window, 

Oh, looking at the rain 

S-sitting down by my window now now, 

All around I felt it, 

All I could see was the rain 

Something grabbed a hold of me, honey, 

Felt to me honey like, lord, a ball and chain 

Yeah! hey! you know what I mean, 

But its way too heavy for you, 

You cant hold it tomorrow 

Say, whoa, whoa, honey, it cant be 

Just because I got to want your love 

Please please please please, whoa please, please 

Whoa, honey it cant be 

Just because I got to need you daddy. 

Please don't you let me down, no, please, lord! 

Here you gone today, but I wanted to love you, 

I wanted to hold you, yeah, till the day I die, 

Till the day, till the day, 

Yeah! hey! hey! all right! 

Say, whoa, whoa, honey this cant be 

Not anything I ever wanted from you daddy 

Tell me now, now, now, now, oh, tell me now, yeah 

I say, whoa, whoa, honey this cant be 

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, yeah yeah, hey! 

And I want someone that could tell me, tell me why 

Just because I got to want your love 

Honey, just because I got to need, need, need your love 

I said I don't understand, honey, but I wanna chance to try 

Try, try, try, try try try try 

Honey when everybody in the world wants the same damn thing 

When everybody in the world will need the same lonely thing 

When I wanna work for your love, daddy 

When I wanna try for your love, daddy 

I don't understand how come you're gone, man 

I don't understand why half the 

World is still crying, man, when the other half of the world is still 

Crying too, man, I cant get it together 

If you got a cat for one day, man I mean, if you, say, say, if you want a 

Cat for 365 days, right you ain't got him for 365 days, you got him for one 

Day, man, well I tell you that one day 

'N, better be your life, man 

Because, you know, you can say, oh man, you 

Can cry about the other 364, man, but you're gonna lose that one day, man, 

And that's all you've got. you gotta call that man 

That's what it is, man. if you got it today you don't want it 

Tomorrow, man, cause you don't need it, cause as a matter of fact, as we 

Discovered in the train, tomorrow never happens, 

It's all the same fucking day, man