Ball and Chain Harmonica Tabs

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Genre: General

Key: Eb

Harp Type: Diatonic

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Ball and Chain Harmonica Tab

Every time this song gets sung, it gets sung different, so I didn’t
figger I could go too wrong guessin’ at most of this. Use these tabs
as a guide and play the song however you want.

2 -1 2 -3″ 3 -3 -3 3
Sit-tin’ down by my win-dow

2 -2 2 -3 -3″ 3 -3″ 3
Just look-in’ out at the rain

2 -1 2 -3″ 3 -3 -3 3
Sit-tin’ down by my win-dow

2 -2 2 -3 -3″ 3 -3″ 3
Just look-in’ out at the rain

3 3 3 -2′ -2
Some-thin’ came a-long

-3 3 -3 3 3
Grabbed a hold of me

3 -2′ -2 -2 -2′ -3″ 3 3
And it felt like a ball and chain

-3 -3 5 6 6 6 -5 -5
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, hon’

6 -5 6 -5 6 -5 7 6 6 -5
Tell me, why does ev-‘ry thing go wrong?

7 7 6 6 -5
It all goes wrong

-3 -3 5 6 6 6 -5
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa

6 6 6 7 6
Now tell me why does

-6 6 -6 6 6 -6 6
Ev-‘ry thing go wrong, all wrong

-3 -4 -3 -4 -3 5
Say, here you gone to-day

5 -4 5 5 -4 5 -4
And I want-ed to love you

5 -4 6
For so long

6 6 6 -5 -5
Oh, whoa, whoa, hon’

6 -5 7
It ain’t fair

7 7 7 7 -6 7
It ain’t fair what you do

6 6 6 6 -5
What you can do, Lord

-3 -3 5 6 6 6 -5
And I say oh whoa whoa

7 7 7
It ain’t fair

7 7 7 7 -6 7
It ain’t fair what you do

6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 7
Oh sud-den-ly you broke my heart

6 -6 -6 6 -6 -6 6 -6 6 4
Oh when I was giv-in’ my love to you

(Like the first verse):
Sit-tin’ down by my window
Just lookin’ out at the rain
Sittin’ down by my window
Just lookin’ out at the rain
Some-thin’ came a-long
Grabbed a hold of me
And it felt like a ball and chain

-3 -3 5 6 6 6 -5 -5
And I say oh, whoa whoa, Hon’

7 7 7
This can’t be

7 7 9 8 8
This can’t be in vain

9 9 9
No, no, no.

-3 -3 5 6 6 6 -5
And I say oh whoa, whoa

7 7 7
This can’t be

7 7 7 7 9 9 8 8
Hon-ey, it can’t be all in vain

5 5 -4 5 5
Hope there is some-one

5 -4 5 5
That could tell me

-4 5 -4 5
Why love is like

-4 6 -4 5 -4 4
A ball and chain.

(Willie Mae [Big Mama]Thornton wrote “Ball and Chain” which Big
Brother changed to a minor-key blues. She applauded Janis’ version of
“Ball and Chain,” saying, “That girl feels like I do.” )

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