Lucky Ball and Chain

They Might Be Giants * Track #3 On Flood

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Lucky Ball and Chain by They Might Be Giants

Release Date

Mon Jan 15 1990

Performed by

They Might Be Giants

Produced by

They Might Be Giants

Writed by

John Linnell & John Flansburgh

Lucky Ball and Chain Lyrics

[Chorus]
I lost my lucky ball and chain
Now she's four years gone
Just five feet tall and sick of me
And all my rattling on

[Verse 1]
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

[Verse 2]
Confidentially, 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

[Chorus]
I lost my lucky ball and chain
Now she's four years gone
Just five feet tall and sick of me
And all my rattling on

[Post-Chorus]
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
"There goes the bride" as she walked out the door

[Verse 3]
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
And when she told me off that day
I knew I'd lost my home

[Verse 4]
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

[Chorus]
I lost my lucky ball and chain
Now she's four years gone
Just five feet tall and sick of me
And all my rattling on

[Post-Chorus]
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
"There goes the bride" as she walked out the door
"There goes the bride" as she walked out the door

Lucky Ball and Chain Q&A

Who wrote Lucky Ball and Chain's ?

Lucky Ball and Chain was written by John Linnell & John Flansburgh.

Who produced Lucky Ball and Chain's ?

Lucky Ball and Chain was produced by They Might Be Giants.

When did They Might Be Giants release Lucky Ball and Chain?

They Might Be Giants released Lucky Ball and Chain on Mon Jan 15 1990.

What did They Might Be Giants say about "Lucky Ball and Chain"?

We have a lot of unreliable narrators strolling around our songs. This one isn’t so unreliable. It’s a simple regret song — kind of a ‘Here’s to the one that got away’ song — but the idea really turned on the title, which is very much in that country-western tradition.

–TMBG’s John Flansburgh

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