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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 F C
Six million, seven-hundred thousand and thirty-three lights on.
G F C
You think someone could take the time 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 laying 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 F C
Perfectly crafted popular hit songs never use the wrong rhyme.
G F C
You'd think that waitress could get my order 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 F C
You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song.
G F C
Fifty million Elvis Presley Fans 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.
Written by John Prine