I've been on this roller coaster just too many times   And always it seems like   The blind keep on leading the blind   Tried to get them on the 'phone   Tried to find my way back home   Tned and failed, and tried and failed, again    But baby I don't want you 'cos you look so good   I don't want you 'cos I know I should   I don't want you to come in f rom the rain   I want you to be my ball and chain   I want you to be my ball and chain       Ah just lately I've been roaming from town to town   I've been setting them up, setting them up   And I've been knocking them down       I was born to live, it seems, a fugitive dream   Make things always better than they seem   And I stop and start, and stop and start   And stop and start again       Baby I don't want you for your money   I don't want you 'cos I love you honey   I don't want you to ease this memory pain   No, I want you to be my ball and chain   Yes, I want you to be my, be my ball and chain       When I see you in the garden once again   Baby you'll be standing in the summer rain   Laugh and cry and say what it's all about   You can even jump and shout   And you'll smile and say how are you again   I don't want you 'cos I'm so blue   I don't want you 'cos you know what to do   I don't want you because all my love seems in vain       I want you to be my ball and chain   I want you to be my ball and chain   I want you to be my ball and chain   I want you to be my ball and chain   Oh, be my ball and chain   Be my ball and chain, be my ball and chain   Oh, be my ball and chain   I want you.....ball and chain, etc.