Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

 I lost my lucky ball & chain

 And now she's four years gone

 Just five feet tall and sick of me

 And all my rattling on

 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.

( with muted string )

Chorus

 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.

Verse 2

 I lost my lucky ball & chain

 And now she's four years gone

 Just five feet tall and sick of me

 And all my rattling on

 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

Bridge

( Noise )

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

When she told me off that day

I knew I'd lost my home.

Chorus

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.

(Repeat 2nd verse)

 I lost my lucky ball & chain

 And now she's four years gone

 Just five feet tall and sick of me

 And all my rattling on

 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