Janis Joplin – Ball and Chain (in album Joplin in Concert )

S-sitting down by my window,

Oh, looking at the rain.

S-sitting down by my window now now,

All around I felt it,

All I could see was the rain.

Something grabbed a hold of me, honey,

Felt to me honey like, Lord, a ball and chain.

Yeah! Hey! You know what I mean,

But it’s way too heavy for you,

You can’t hold it tomorrow.

Say, whoa, whoa, honey, it can’t be

Just because I got to want your love

Please please please please, whoa please, please.

Whoa, honey it can’t be

Just because I got to need you daddy.

Please don’t you let me down, no, please, Lord!

Here you gone today, but I wanted to love you,

I wanted to hold you, yeah, till the day I die,

Till the day, till the day,

Yeah! Hey! Hey! All right!

Say, whoa, whoa, honey this can’t be

Not anything I ever wanted from you daddy

Tell me now, now, now, now, oh, tell me now, yeah.

I say, whoa, whoa, honey this can’t be

No, no, no, no, no, no, no … yeah yeah, hey!

And I want someone that could tell me, tell me why

Just because I got to want your love

Honey, just because I got to need, need, need your love

I said I don’t understand, honey, but I wanna chance to try

Try, try, try, try try try try

Honey when everybody in the world wants the same damn thing

When everybody in the world will need the same lonely thing

When I wanna work for your love, daddy.

When I wanna try for your love, daddy.

I don’t understand how come you’re gone, man. I don’t understand why half the world is still crying, man, when the other half of the world is still crying too, man, I can’t get it together. I mean, if you got a cat for one day, man