• Song:

    Aint Hurtin No Body

  • Artist:

    John Prine

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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