Guitar Tab:Lucky Ball & Chain

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Lucky Ball & Chain

By: They Might Be Giants

Key: G Major

Year: 1990

(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 - - - - x 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. 2ND VERSE: (Repeat first four lines of 1st verse) 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 There goes the bride as she walked out the door (Break): F#dim7 (or Bdim7/F# for the recorded version) (Verse 3, repeat Verse 1 chords): I could shake my tiny fist And swear I wasn't wrong, But what's the sense in arguing When you're all alone? Sure as you can't steer a train You can't change your fate When she told me off that day I knew I'd lost my home. B7 - - - - x C G Confidentially, I never told you of her charms. C G Confidentially, we never had a home, C G But this railroad apartment was the perfect place D C D When she'd sit and hold me in her arms. (Repeat 2nd verse) C D G (Repeat 3x) "There goes the bride" as she walked out the door. Coda: G - Em - C - D (repeat infinitely until fade as heard on the record, or just end with G. G on the bass during those chords) (The MIDI sax lead during the coda has yet to be tabbed) 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +