Tipo de gaita: Diatônica
Tom: Eb

Every time this song gets sung, it gets sung different, so I didn'tfigger I could go too wrong guessin' at most of this.  Use these tabsas 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'

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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


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Oh, whoa, whoa, hon'

6   -5    7
It ain't fair 

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

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What you can do, Lord

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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 BigBrother changed to a minor-key blues. She applauded Janis' version of"Ball and Chain," saying, "That girl feels like I do." )