Ball and Chain
David Allen Coe

Sittin' down by my window,
Just lookin' out at the rain, at the rain
I said I'm sittin' down by my window,
Just lookin' out at the rain.
You know somethin' came along, grabbed a hold of me,
Felt just like a ball and chain.

And I say, oh, oh, oh, hon',
Why does every thing go wrong ?
It all goes wrong.
And I say, oh, now tell me why,
Does every thing go wrong, all wrong.
Say, here you gone today, an' I wanted to love you
For so long.

Love's got a hold on me, baby,
Feels just like a ball and chain, hmm hmm hmm.
Oh, love's got a hold on me, baby,
Feels just like a ball and chain.
And I don't know why the man I'm lovin'
Wanna leave me in so much pain.

And I say, oh oh oh, hon', tell me why,
Tell me why, tell me why, oh tell me why, why, why.
And I say, oh, honey why, why, oh why, tell me why.
I thought our love would last
Honey, gonna last, last
Till the day I die.

And I say oh, whoa, whoa, hon'
It ain't fair, it ain't fair what you can do,
What you can do, Lord.
And I say oh whoa,
Lord, it ain't fair, it ain't fair what you can do, Lord, you can do.
Oh suddenly you broke my heart
Oh when I was givin' my love to you.

Sittin' down by my window,
Just lookin' out at the rain.
I said I'm sittin' down by my window,
Just lookin' out at the rain.
Somethin' came along, grabbed a hold of me,
Felt just like a ball and chain.

And I say oh, hon this can't be
This can't be all in vain, no, no, no.
And I say whoa, whoa, this can't be,
Honey, it can't be all in vain,
Hope there is someone that could tell me
Hon', tell me why love is like
A ball and chain.


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Lyrics by David Allen Coe

  A Sad Country Song   A Satisfied Mind   Another Pretty Country Song   As Far as This Feeling Will Take Us   Atlanta Song   Back to Atlanta   Ballad of a Teenage Queen   Blue Grass Morning   Call Me the Breeze   Cheap Thrills   Child of God   Cum Stains On The Pillow   Desperados Waiting for a Train   Divers Do It Deeper   Face to Face   Family Album   Family Reunion   Folsom Prison Blues   For Your Precious Love   Fraulein   Free Born Rambling Man   Free My Mind   Fuck Anita Bryant   Fuckin in the Butt   Fuzzy Was an Outlaw   Get a Little Dirt on Your Hands   Give My Love to Rose   Greener Than the Grass (We Laid On)   Hank Williams Junior   Hank Williams Junior-Junior   He Will Break Your Heart   Heads or Tails   Heavenly Father, Holy Mother   Hey Gypsy   Hey Porter   Home on the Range   Hot Wet Tight Bald Pussy   House of the Rising Sun   I Could Never Give You Up (For Someone Else)   I Still Sing the Old Songs   If I Knew   If This Is Just a Game   If You Ever Think of Me at All   Jody Like a Melody   Juanita   Just Divorced   Just in Time (To Watch Love Die)   Just to Prove My Love for You   Little Orphan Annie   Little Sussie Shallow Throat   Living on the Run   Long Haired Country Boy   Long Haired Redneck   Longhaired Redneck   Looking in the Mirror   Lost   Love Is a Never Ending War   Love Is a Never Ending War   Maria Is a Mystery   Me and Bobby McGee   Merle and Me   Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile   My Girl   Nigger Fucker   Now I Lay Me Down to Cheat   Now I Lay Me Down to Cheat [1981]   Old Man Tell Me   On the Road Again   One More Time   Play Me a Sad Song   Please Come to Boston   Please Come to Boston [1976]   Pledging My Love   Rails   Revenge   Ride   Ride 'Em Cowboy   Ring of Fire   Rock & Roll Holiday   Room Full of Roses   Rose Knows   San Francisco Mabel Joy   She Used to Love Me a Lot   Shenandoah   Shine It On   Skip to My Lou   Snowblind Friend   Someone to Give My Love To   Someplace to Come When It Rains   Son of the South   Spotlight   Stand by Your Man   Storms Never Last   Suicide   Sunday Morning Coming Down   Sweet Angeline   Sweet Vibrations (Some Folks Call It Love)   Take It Easy Rider   Take This Job and Shove It Too   Take Time to Know Her   Tanya Montana   Tennessee Waltz   Tennessee Whiskey   The Punkin Center Barn Dance   The Ride [C]   Thief in My Bedroom   Three Time Loser   Whiskey And Woman   Whiskey, Whiskey (Take My Mind)   Whole Lot of Lonesome   Why Me   Would You Be My Lady [*]   Yellow Rose of Texas   You Never Even Call Me by My Name

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