Lucky Ball And Chain Lyrics

Lucky Ball & Chain by They Might Be Giants
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I lost my lucky ball & chain / and now she's four years gone / Just five feet
tall and sick of me / and all my rattling on / She threw away her baby-doll /
I held on to my pride / But I was young and foolish then / I feel old and
foolish now / Comfidentally- / she never called me baby-doll / Confidentially- 
/ I never had much pride / But now I rock a bar stool / and I drink for two / 
just pondering this time bomb in my mind / She walked away from a happy man /
I thought I was so cool / I just stood there whistling / "There goes the bride"
/ as she walked out the door / 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 / Confidentially- / I never told you of her
charms / Confidentially- / we never had a home / But this railroad apartment /
was the perfect place / when she'd sit and hold me in her arms

Typed in by Gary Adkins (gary@gnu.ai.mit.edu)