YES!!!! This is the version I have been looking for on YouTube!!!!! OMG I love this version! The guitar is divine and the way she sings this song is so breathtaking!!
I have been searching through all these videos for THIS version of this song. God, no one sings like this woman did! So much heart and soul into every line, verse and every ahhhhh.....And that band backing her up, they are like a PB & J sandwich, classic and never gets stale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rocks me to my core every time!
I have been searching through all these videos for THIS version of this song. God, no one sings like this woman did! So much heart and soul into every line, verse and every ahhhhh.....And that band backing her up, they are like a PB & J sandwich, classic and never gets stale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rocks me to my core every time!
this is a lesson in how to put REAL emotion into a song......it doesn't matter one little bit who the hell you are, if you got the blues.....you got the blues....thanks for posting
@Assmodeo If that pulled at your heartstrings you should listen to Me n Bobby Mgee. The part where she says "I would give up all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday." That song to me was too comercialised (sp?) till a friend that lost his wife to cancer, who was also a joplin fan, gave that song new meaning to me.
cause as a matter of fact as we discover in the terrain, tomorrow never happens man, it's all the same fucking day man. So you gotta, when you wanna hold somebody, you gotta hold em like it's the last minute of your life you gotta hold,,,,,,, on ,,,,, hold it - cause someday somebodys gonna come on your shoulders, babe, it gonna feel to heavy, its gonna weigh on ya, its gonna feel just like a ball n chain.
This version was recorded somewhere in Canada during the 1970 Freedom Train series of concerts, likely in Toronto, but possibly Winnipeg because I personally remember hearing a rap to this effect during her concert appearance there.
I can't get it together. I mean, if you gotta cat for 1 day man, say, maybe you wanna cat for 365 days right? You ain't got it for 365 days man. You got it for 1 day man, well, I'll tell you that 1 day man better ber your life., because you know you can cry about the other 364 man, but your gonna lose that one day man and thats all you got, you gotta call that love man. Thats what it is man,, if you got it today you don't wear it tomorrow man. cause you don't need it.
I don't understand when I wanna try so hard, try,try, try,,,, honey when everyone in the world wants the same damned thing, when everybody in the world who needs the same lord thing,, when I wanna work for your love daddy, when I wanna try for your love daddy. I don't understand how come your gone man. I don't understand why half the world is still crying man,, and the other half the world is still crying too man,,
hello puppy,well 40 years ago at bobs broiler near golden gate park, 4am this gal, eating pecan pie wipes her face with a feather boa then sees herself in the stainless steel behind the counter. Cackles like the wizard of oz witch and falls off the stool.Sees the feathers stuck to her face.
i love this b*tch and i'm sure janis wouldn't mind me callling her this. she's awesome and this version of ball and chain is my favorite. i'm glad someone posted it. timeless!!!
This is my favorite Ball and Chain recording. Janis always sings like when she is finished there is blood on the floor, she gets better all the time, but what makes this recording great was the piano, the guy playing it played it like a drum. he kept beating out the rhythm, get chills.
you aint got him for 365 days, you got him for one day, man. well I tell you that one da
N, better be your life, man. because, you know, you can say, oh man, you can cry about the other 364, man, but youre gonna lose that one day, man, and thats all youve got. you gotta call that love
, man. thats what it is, man. if you got it today you dont want it tomorrow, man, cause you dont need it,
just incase someone loves those words the way I do
@Bladesinger6640 I'm tellin' you, I don't care how high she was, it made perfect sense to me. The first time I heard it I laughed so hard, but after listening to it many times after, I understood completely what she was saying. Great point in the song. My favorite part is "that one day better be your life, man."
I dont understand how come youre gone, man. I dont understand why half the world is still crying, man, when the other half of the world is still crying too, man, I cant get it together. i
If you got a cat for one day, man I mean, if you, say, say, if you want a cat for 365 days, right
If I was a teen/young adult in this time I think I would have O.D.ed too I love watching the live performances of her, even though she is so strung out - The live ones are just so intense sometimes I cry watching her
but this one has the full lyrics on it and my motto in life time 5:45 on I mean that is what life is all about man She felt more in her pinky than I do with my whole heart and that is awesome I think that is why she couldnt get off the train.
i have that album and i know this version from it, but i don't understand what are you trying to say (i understood from you that is a studio version,but perhaps you wanted to say something else). i think it's a live version because you can hear guys screaming like nuts "janis".
Es la primer cancion que escuche de Janis, cuando era una niña y desde entonces no la escuchaba esta vercion, es estupenda! ¡Felicidades! x colgarla x fin la encontre.
Look at this video of Janis. She looks like she's crying. By the way, when she talks in the middle of this song... don't you think she has a little touch of a New York accent?
Hers voice is really beautifull, she must have been a lonely person??, a kind of woman who gives us nowaday a kind of deep-soul sensitivity. Many thanks and it must keep endure her lovin' memories. A crazy fan from Hungary.
if i'll ever have a daughter, her name will be Janis. Love you, R.I.P
Walkthisway1993 2 weeks ago
THIS is THE version!
manysons 1 month ago
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this version and monterey can blown you away...they are both unreal
veliar30 2 months ago
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this version and monterey can blown you away...they are both UNREAL
veliar30 2 months ago
this version and monterey can blown you away...they are both UNREAL
veliar30 2 months ago
YES!!!! This is the version I have been looking for on YouTube!!!!! OMG I love this version! The guitar is divine and the way she sings this song is so breathtaking!!
aoazulemi3 2 months ago
a precious soul for this lonely world
MrMysticalPotato 3 months ago
mama cosmic !
Museismydrug1 4 months ago
Best live version of this song, such energy!
Tenebrius1963 4 months ago
love her , this is probly one of my favorite songs ever!!
angelwestside 9 months ago
I have been TOTALLY blown away..can't find the words...beyond amazing...intense...oh god, what a song, what a voice, feel...awesome!
aglareth 10 months ago 4
@aglareth wonderful isn't it?
mekarios 10 months ago
she should be brought back from the dead and kick the new wave of singers in the rear.
aglareth 8 months ago 2
@aglareth SHE WOULD KICK THE CUNT OUT OF JUSTIN BIEBER AND PUT HIS PENIS ON A HOTDOG BUN
videodude92 4 months ago
This is Janis at her most live and haunting best! X
Robcom7 10 months ago
"So when you wanna hold somebody, you gotta hold them like its the last minute of your life."
WickedxHaze 1 year ago
As much as I hate bringing up this topic... one dislike? That had to be a mis-click.
mussman717word 1 year ago
@mussman717word must've been someone who didn't like the picture
lyragaarder 1 year ago
@lyragaarder
Ha. Impossible.
mussman717word 1 year ago
I have been searching through all these videos for THIS version of this song. God, no one sings like this woman did! So much heart and soul into every line, verse and every ahhhhh.....And that band backing her up, they are like a PB & J sandwich, classic and never gets stale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rocks me to my core every time!
WitchMagick 1 year ago
I have been searching through all these videos for THIS version of this song. God, no one sings like this woman did! So much heart and soul into every line, verse and every ahhhhh.....And that band backing her up, they are like a PB & J sandwich, classic and never gets stale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rocks me to my core every time!
WitchMagick 1 year ago
"It's all the same fuckin' day, man!"
lyricalgod100 1 year ago
I love this version of Ball & Chain, especially Janis's soliloquy before the end, awesome!
lyricalgod100 1 year ago
Oh Baby, Baby, Bay Janis, Ye Gods how we miss you babe! You were the sound ou=f our youth, and weren't we lucky to hear you!
GeaVox 1 year ago
@GeaVox Damn it! I would've loved to hear her live...just...damn my 21 years
lyragaarder 1 year ago
this song is love.....
elysaskis 1 year ago
this is my favorite rendition of this tune .... janis can always be imitated but never duplicated. rock on, sister!!!!!!!!!
sookiestackhouse2u 1 year ago
Just that performance alone made her a legend.
TheyCallMeTheSwede 1 year ago
"Man" is a nice word =D
snorhoofd 1 year ago 8
@snorhoofd she thought so too :D
mekarios 1 year ago
excuse me...but in this song who's playong the guitar? can you tell me, please? thanx!
fandra 2 years ago
"It's all the same f---ing day, man..!"
noahf67 2 years ago 2
for him it was friday
for me it was saturday
but in another time-zone it may had been the same freakin' day!
and i am f*** grateful for this day!
sKittyKaz 1 year ago
a grate Heroine............
fspinozz 2 years ago
This is the most intense version BAR NONE!!! Sorry but Monterey dont cut the cheese.
Vamp1963 2 years ago
@Vamp1963
Well, Cass Elliot sure seemed impressed
Xychk 1 year ago
@Vamp1963 aw- I think you just cut the cheese
Xychk 1 year ago
this is a lesson in how to put REAL emotion into a song......it doesn't matter one little bit who the hell you are, if you got the blues.....you got the blues....thanks for posting
sirfredofx 2 years ago
I've never heard this version before. It gets to me so bad... Man, no joke, I'm crying like an idiot.
Assmodeo 2 years ago 3
@Assmodeo If that pulled at your heartstrings you should listen to Me n Bobby Mgee. The part where she says "I would give up all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday." That song to me was too comercialised (sp?) till a friend that lost his wife to cancer, who was also a joplin fan, gave that song new meaning to me.
tzckret 1 year ago
best version
goblinking169 2 years ago 2
i wish i could have been there when music mattered... cheers to janis for puttin all she had in it
*muah*
xxsindaluxx 2 years ago
cause as a matter of fact as we discover in the terrain, tomorrow never happens man, it's all the same fucking day man. So you gotta, when you wanna hold somebody, you gotta hold em like it's the last minute of your life you gotta hold,,,,,,, on ,,,,, hold it - cause someday somebodys gonna come on your shoulders, babe, it gonna feel to heavy, its gonna weigh on ya, its gonna feel just like a ball n chain.
tzckret 2 years ago
@tzckret
This version was recorded somewhere in Canada during the 1970 Freedom Train series of concerts, likely in Toronto, but possibly Winnipeg because I personally remember hearing a rap to this effect during her concert appearance there.
gewcolo 2 years ago
I can't get it together. I mean, if you gotta cat for 1 day man, say, maybe you wanna cat for 365 days right? You ain't got it for 365 days man. You got it for 1 day man, well, I'll tell you that 1 day man better ber your life., because you know you can cry about the other 364 man, but your gonna lose that one day man and thats all you got, you gotta call that love man. Thats what it is man,, if you got it today you don't wear it tomorrow man. cause you don't need it.
tzckret 2 years ago
what was she talking after singing from 4:40?
i can't hear....
please tell me.
1990yusuke 2 years ago
I don't understand when I wanna try so hard, try,try, try,,,, honey when everyone in the world wants the same damned thing, when everybody in the world who needs the same lord thing,, when I wanna work for your love daddy, when I wanna try for your love daddy. I don't understand how come your gone man. I don't understand why half the world is still crying man,, and the other half the world is still crying too man,,
tzckret 2 years ago
hello puppy,well 40 years ago at bobs broiler near golden gate park, 4am this gal, eating pecan pie wipes her face with a feather boa then sees herself in the stainless steel behind the counter. Cackles like the wizard of oz witch and falls off the stool.Sees the feathers stuck to her face.
Ihateprogress 2 years ago
LMFAO ROCK ON JANIS FOREVER
cutlassracer05 2 years ago
i love this b*tch and i'm sure janis wouldn't mind me callling her this. she's awesome and this version of ball and chain is my favorite. i'm glad someone posted it. timeless!!!
"sitting by my window .... lalalala"
RIP, my sweet janis........
sookiestackhouse2u 2 years ago
This is my favorite Ball and Chain recording. Janis always sings like when she is finished there is blood on the floor, she gets better all the time, but what makes this recording great was the piano, the guy playing it played it like a drum. he kept beating out the rhythm, get chills.
mrhulot101 2 years ago
great recording.
jenzeppelin 2 years ago 4
Haha! No Mekarios you dont need to say anything. Im 16 again. God Ive missed this. Thanks you. 5*****
NoRosesForMe 2 years ago 2
you aint got him for 365 days, you got him for one day, man. well I tell you that one da
N, better be your life, man. because, you know, you can say, oh man, you can cry about the other 364, man, but youre gonna lose that one day, man, and thats all youve got. you gotta call that love
, man. thats what it is, man. if you got it today you dont want it tomorrow, man, cause you dont need it,
just incase someone loves those words the way I do
Bladesinger6640 3 years ago 18
wooooooooo, i hear that!!!!!!!
sookiestackhouse2u 2 years ago
i have been listen to verions of this song all day 2 find the one with those words
janisj1969 2 years ago 2
@Bladesinger6640 I'm tellin' you, I don't care how high she was, it made perfect sense to me. The first time I heard it I laughed so hard, but after listening to it many times after, I understood completely what she was saying. Great point in the song. My favorite part is "that one day better be your life, man."
aoazulemi3 2 months ago
time 5:45 (well 5:01)
I dont understand how come youre gone, man. I dont understand why half the world is still crying, man, when the other half of the world is still crying too, man, I cant get it together. i
If you got a cat for one day, man I mean, if you, say, say, if you want a cat for 365 days, right
Bladesinger6640 3 years ago 2
If I was a teen/young adult in this time I think I would have O.D.ed too I love watching the live performances of her, even though she is so strung out - The live ones are just so intense sometimes I cry watching her
but this one has the full lyrics on it and my motto in life time 5:45 on I mean that is what life is all about man She felt more in her pinky than I do with my whole heart and that is awesome I think that is why she couldnt get off the train.
Bladesinger6640 3 years ago
Was this Calgary? Is the "train" reference about the Festival Express?
noahf67 3 years ago
Yes it was. (noah) But few know that.
NoRosesForMe 2 years ago
LOVE this song!
LoudButNotCheap 3 years ago
i have that album and i know this version from it, but i don't understand what are you trying to say (i understood from you that is a studio version,but perhaps you wanted to say something else). i think it's a live version because you can hear guys screaming like nuts "janis".
soniaradu 3 years ago
yea but she has the live sound in lots of her songs that aren't actually live. like Turtle Blues... but idk it could be live.
Live or studio its still amazing.
Not many musicians sound as good in concert as they do in studio recordings, but Janis did.
plporsche 3 years ago
does anyone know at what concert was she singing here?
soniaradu 3 years ago
idk i could be really ignorant but I'm pretty sure it's just a different cut. I know this specific one is on her greatest hits album.
plporsche 3 years ago
Es la primer cancion que escuche de Janis, cuando era una niña y desde entonces no la escuchaba esta vercion, es estupenda! ¡Felicidades! x colgarla x fin la encontre.
RankitoJanis 3 years ago 2
This cut is on her best of album I have it and just thought I'd put it out in case you want this particular cut.
diggindis 3 years ago 2
this cut has the best guitar I really dig it!
diggindis 3 years ago
Esta fue la primera cancion que escuche de Janis...
ZombieGirl69 3 years ago
The germany version is probably the best version of it.
Drkullander 3 years ago
Man I can hear this verse 100 times,
that's to bed that there is'nt a video of this verse:(
MaorRoitman 3 years ago 3
Righteous
Willingmind 3 years ago
My all time favorite version of this great song!
Talk about soul and intensity!
Vamp1963 4 years ago 12
Mine too, it's for this that I uploaded it...couldn't find it anywhere..often I've goosebumps listening to this song^^
mekarios 3 years ago
AMEN Janis Oh Yeah!!
AmericaSUXZ 4 years ago
Oh DAMN!! Best performance of the decade by the best singer of the decade.
AmericaSUXZ 4 years ago
I LOVE this version of ball and chain♥
ninushik 4 years ago
Look at this video of Janis. She looks like she's crying. By the way, when she talks in the middle of this song... don't you think she has a little touch of a New York accent?
JeffK1980 4 years ago 2
Don't know...I'm italian
mekarios 3 years ago 2
@JeffK1980 She was born in Texas (Port Arthur), so she had a bit of a Texas drawl.
tvtimetravel 1 year ago
Hers voice is really beautifull, she must have been a lonely person??, a kind of woman who gives us nowaday a kind of deep-soul sensitivity. Many thanks and it must keep endure her lovin' memories. A crazy fan from Hungary.
beingadeanerisgreat 4 years ago 6