PRINE JOHN - "Aint Hurtin Nobody" Tablature

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From: booker@elvice.ib.stortek.com (Sam Booker)
Subject: CRD: Ain't Hurtin' Nobody by John Prine
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 09:17:42 -0600 (MDT)

AIN'T HURTIN' NOBODY

Words and music by John Prine
From Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, Oh Boy Records, 1995

Chords by Sam Booker (booker@elvice.stortek.com)


INTRO: C

C
I'm walkin' down the street

Like Lucky Larue
F
Got my hand in my pocket

I'm thinkin' 'bout you
C G
I ain't hurtin' nobody
C
I ain't hurtin' no one

C
There's three hundred men

In the state of Tennessee
F
They're waiting to die

They won't never be free
C G
I ain't hurtin' nobody
C
I ain't hurtin' no one

G
Six million seven hundred thousand
F C
And thirty-three lights on
G
You think someone could take the time
F C
To sit down and listen to the words of my song

C
At the beach in Indiana

I was nine years old
F
Heard Little Richard singing "Tutti Frutti"

From the top of a telephone pole
C G
I wasn't hurtin' nobody
C
I wasn't hurtin' no one

C
There's roosters laying chickens

And chickens layin' eggs
F
Farm machinery eating

People's arms and legs
C G
I ain't hurtin' nobody
C
I ain't hurtin' no one

G
Perfectly crafted popular hit songs never use
F C
the wrong rhyme
G
You'd think that waitress could get my order
F C
Right the first time


INSTRUMENTAL:
C F C G C

C
She's sitting on the back steps

Just shucking that corn
F
That gal's been grinning

Since the day she was born
C G
She ain't hurtin' nobody
C
She ain't hurtin' no one

C
I used to live in Chicago

Where the cold wind blows
F
I delivered more junk mail

Than the junkyard would hold
C G
I wasn't hurtin' nobody
C
I wasn't hurtin' no one

G
You can fool some of the people part of the time
F C
In a rock and roll song
G
Fifty million Elvis Presley Fans
F C
Can't be all wrong

C
I'm walkin' down the street

Like Lucky Larue
F
Got my hand in my pocket, Baby

I'm thinkin' 'bout you
C G
I ain't hurtin' nobody
C
I ain't hurtin' no one


ENDING:
C G
I ain't hurtin' nobody
C
I ain't hurtin' no one

C F
C G
Hurtin' nobody
C
Hurtin' no one

C F
C G
Hurtin' nobody
C
Hurtin' no one

C F
C G
Hurtin' nobody
C FADE
Hurtin' no one

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