Ball And Chain Lyrics - Singles - Joplin Janis

Ball and Chain 

by 

Janis Joplin 

(Please take the accuracy of these lyrics with a grain of salt. Janis 

is a pretty hard chic to understand.) 

Sitting down by my window 

Looking at the rain 

Send a bomb in my world of night air 

All around I felt it 

All I could see was the rain 

Something grabbed a hold of me honey 

Felt to me, honey like a ball and chain 

You know what I mean 

Say whoah...honey, this can't be 

Just because I got to want your love, please...leave me be 

Whoah...honey, this can't be 

Just because I got to need ya daddy 

Please don't ya let me down now 

Honey, I wanted to love ya 

Whoah...honey, just can't be 

I wonder if someone...if they 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 say, I don't understand 

Honey, when I wanna try and say hi 

Try, try, try, try, try, try, try... 

Honey, when everybody in the world wants the same damn thing 

When everybody in the world, who needs the same lone thing 

When I wanna work for your love daddy 

When I wanna try for you love daddy 

I don't understand, how come, your gone, man 

I don't understand why half the world is still crying, man 

When the other half the world is still crying too, man 

I mean, if you gotta care for one day, man 

Say, maybe, you wanna care for 365 days, right? 

You ain't got it for 365 days, man 

You got it for one day, man 

Well, I'll tell you that one day, man, better be your life, man 

Because you know, you can say Oh Man, 

you can cry about the other 364 

But your gonna lose that one day, man 

And that's all you got 

You gotta call that love, man. 

That's what it is. 

If you got it today, you don't wear it tomorrow 

Cause you don't need it 

As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, 

tomorrow never happens. 

It's all the same fucking day, man. 

So you gotta, when you wanna hold somebody 

You gotta hold em like it's the last minute of your life 

You gotta hold......................... 

Holy...Cause some day some weight gonna come on your shoulders babe 

Ball 

and Chain.