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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

 CI'm (x32010@1)walkin' down the street

Like Lucky Larue
 FGot (133211@1)my hand in my pocket

I'm thinkin' 'bout you
        C (x32010@1)            GI (320003@1)ain't hurtin' nobody
                   CI (x32010@1)ain't hurtin' no one

  CThere's (x32010@1)three hundred men

In the state of Tennessee
 FThey're (133211@1)waiting to die

They won't never be free
          C (x32010@1)           GI (320003@1)ain't hurtin' nobody
                    CI (x32010@1)ain't hurtin' no one

 GSix (320003@1)million seven hundred thousand
                   F (133211@1)  CAnd (x32010@1)thirty-three lights on
 GYou (320003@1)think someone could take the time
                                       F (133211@1) CTo (x32010@1)sit down and listen to the words of my song

CAt (x32010@1)the beach in Indiana

I was nine years old
FHeard (133211@1)Little Richard singing "Tutti Frutti"

>From the top of a telephone pole
            C (x32010@1)         GI (320003@1)wasn't hurtin' nobody
                     CI (x32010@1)wasn't hurtin' no one

 CThere's (x32010@1)roosters laying chickens

And chickens layin' eggs
FFarm (133211@1)machinery eating

People's arms and legs
          C (x32010@1)           GI (320003@1)ain't hurtin' nobody
                    CI (x32010@1)ain't hurtin' no one

GPerfectly (320003@1)crafted popular hit songs never use
      F (133211@1)   Cthe (x32010@1)wrong rhyme
 GYou'd (320003@1)think that waitress could get my order
            F (133211@1)  CRight (x32010@1)the first time


INSTRUMENTAL:
 C (x32010@1)  F (133211@1)  C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)  C (x32010@1) CShe's (x32010@1)sitting on the back steps

Just shucking that corn
 FThat (133211@1)gal's been grinning

Since the day she was born
            C (x32010@1)          GShe (320003@1)ain't hurtin' nobody
                      CShe (x32010@1)ain't hurtin' no one

CI (x32010@1)used to live in Chicago

Where the cold wind blows
FI (133211@1)delivered more junk mail

Than the junkyard would hold
            C (x32010@1)         GI (320003@1)wasn't hurtin' nobody
                     CI (x32010@1)wasn't hurtin' no one

 GYou (320003@1)can fool some of the people part of the time
               F (133211@1)  CIn (x32010@1)a rock and roll song
 GFifty (320003@1)million Elvis Presley Fans
          F (133211@1)  CCan't (x32010@1)be all wrong

CI'm (x32010@1)walkin' down the street

Like Lucky Larue
FGot (133211@1)my hand in my pocket, Baby

I'm thinkin' 'bout you
           C (x32010@1)         GI (320003@1)ain't hurtin' nobody
                    CI (x32010@1)ain't hurtin' no one


ENDING:
          C (x32010@1)          GI (320003@1)ain't hurtin' nobody
                    CI (x32010@1)ain't hurtin' no one

  C (x32010@1)    F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)          GHurtin' (320003@1)nobody
            CHurtin' (x32010@1)no one

  C (x32010@1)    F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)          GHurtin' (320003@1)nobody
            CHurtin' (x32010@1)no one

  C (x32010@1)    F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)         GHurtin' (320003@1)nobody
            C (x32010@1)FADE
Hurtin' no one