Chords for Jackie Greene, "Like a Ball and Chain" - KFOG Archives

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
Ooh, yeah.
Ooh. _ _ _
Ah, huh, yeah.
[Gm] Ooh. _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] Well, she, [F] _ [C] _ _
she's so [Gm] alive. _ _ _
She [Am] self [F]-survived. _ _ _
She's so [C] alive. _ _ _ _ _
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I'm just her [Gm] toy. _ _ _ _
I'm [F] _ overjoyed [Bb] to _ be [C] her toy. _ _ _ _ _
She was standing on the corner, looking like a foreign resort.
I tried to warn her, said I wasn't for the [Gm] business, man. _ _ _ _ _
[F] But she shook her head, my face got [Bb] red.
She turned and said that I better find [C] another friend. _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] So how can I _ [C] compete? _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] This town holds her down by [F] her _ reckless [C] [F] feet. _
_ [C] _ Like a ballad chain, a ballad chain.
She's in [Gm] my veins, man, she's in my veins.
I ain't [F] the same since I learned her [Bb] name.
She's like a [F] ball [C] and chain. _
_ _ [F] _ _ [C] Now, I, _ _ I look [Gm] around. _ _
_ _ It's a [F] crazy town, _ [Bb] _ if you [C] look around. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
She, she _ loves [Gm] the sound _ of this [F] crazy town.
_ [Bb] _ She loves [C] our sound. _
_ _ _ _ I was at the wheel of an automobile when I thought that I could steal her away for a [Gm] Sunday drive. _
_ _ _ _ [F] But she told me no, said she didn't want to [Bb] go.
My heart sank low and I felt like a [C] fool inside. _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] So how can I _ [C] persuade? _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] I was born too soft to be [F] in _ love [C] this [F] way.
_ _ [C] _ Like a ballad chain, a ballad chain.
She's in [Gm] my veins, man, she's in my veins.
I ain't [F] the same since I learned [Bb] her name.
She's like a ball [C] and chain, like a ball and [F] chain.
A [C] ballad chain, a ballad chain.
I [Gm] can't tame her wicked game.
I ain't [F] the same since I learned her [Bb] name.
She's like a ball [C] and chain, like a ball and chain.
Oh!
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] I've got to run.
All _
_ [Em] _ _ right.
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