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
