The Songwriters Hall of Fame web site says Andy Razaf and Fats Waller wrote a song called BALL AND CHAIN BLUES; however, I have found several different songs by that title, and I haven't been able to identify which one, if any, is theirs.

Here's one:

BALL AND CHAIN BLUES
As recorded by Peg Leg Howell, 1929.

I laid in jail, back turned to the wall. (2x)
There's a Georgia woman was the cause of it all.

They 'rested me, they carried me 'fore the judge. (2x)
Said the judge wouldn't 'low me to say a mumbling word.

I asked the judge what might be my fine. (2x)
Said the ... jailhouse deep down in the mine.

I told the judge I ain't been here before. (2x)
If you give me light sentence, I won't come here no more.

Mister judge, mister judge, please don't break so harsh. (2x)
I've always been a pie-back(?); never had no job.

The next day, they carried this poor boy away. (2x)
Said the next day, I laid in ball and chain.

Stripes on my back, chain … 'round my leg. (2x)
This ball and chain 'bout to kill me dead.


There were other early recordings of songs titled BALL AND CHAIN BLUES by:
Happy Bud Harrison, 1929.
Memphis Minnie, 1935.

and later recordings by:
Josh White
Lonnie Johnson
Cowboy Copas