Hurts So Good

by John Cougar Mellencamp · posted by WaltP

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HURTS SO GOOD (chromatic)
By: John Mellencamp & George Green
John Cougar Mellencamp
Key: A

  6  5* 6  5*  6   -6*
When I was a young boy,
 -6* -6*-6*-6*  -6*   -6*   6   5* 
Said put a-way those young boy ways
 6   5*   6   6   6    6  5*  6    6   5* -4
Now that I'm get-tin' old-er, so much old-er
-7 -7   6    6    -6*   6   5*
I love all those young boy days.
 6   5* 6    6   -6*
With a girl like you,
 -7  6  6    6  -6*6
With a girl like you,
 -6*  -6*   -6*  -6*   -6*  -6* 6 -6* -6*-6*
Lord knows there are things we can do, ba-by,
 6   7   7   6
Just me and you.
 6   6   5*   6  6
Come on and make it

 5*  6  5*-4
Hurt so good.
 -7  -7 -7  6    6  6   6    6  -6*
Come on ba-by, make it hurt so good.
 -6*   6    -6*   5*   -5   5*  -4   -3    
Some-times love don't feel like it should.
-3   -4  -3  4*  -4  -3
You make it hurt so good.

 5*    6   5* 6   6 -6*-6* -6*
Don't have to be so ex-cit-ing.
-6*   -6*   -6* -6* -6* -6*
Just try’n' to give my-self 
-6*-6* -6*  6  6   5*   5*
a  lit-tle bit of fun, yeah.
 5* 6   6     6  65* 6  5* -4
You al-ways look so in-vit-in'
-7   -7   -7   6   6  -6*  6    5*
You ain't as green as you are young
5*  6  6   -6*  -6*
Hey ba-by, it’s you.
 -7  6     6    6    -6*  6
Come on, girl, now, it’s you.
-6*   -6*  -6*   -6*    -6*  -6*6 -6*  -6*-6*
Sink your teeth right through my bones, ba-by.
  6    6    6  7   7  6
Let's see what we can do.
 6   6   5*  6   6
Come on and make it

 5*  6  5*-4
Hurt so good.
 -7  -7 -7  6    6  6   6    6  -6*
Come on ba-by, make it hurt so good.
 -6*   6    -6*   5*   -5   5*  -4   -3    
Some-times love don't feel like it should.
-3   -4  -3  4*  -4  -3
You make it hurt so good.

-6*  6  -6*  6   -5  6   -6*
I ain't talk-in' no big deals
-6* -6* -6*  6   -6*  6   5*
I ain't made no plans my-self.
-6* -6*  -6* 6   -5  6    -6*
I ain't talk-in' no high heels
 5* 5* 5*   5*   -4  5*  -5  -4   5*  -5
May-be we could walk a-round all day long,
 -4  5*  -5  -4   5*  -5
walk a-round all day long.

5*  6  5*-4
Hurt so good.
 -7  -7 -7  6    6  6   6    6  -6*
Come on ba-by, make it hurt so good.
 -6*   6    -6*   5*   -5   5*  -4   -3    
Some-times love don't feel like it should.
-3   -4  -3  4*  -4  -3
You make it hurt so good.
5*  6  5*-4
Hurt so good.
 -7  -7 -7  6    6  6   6    6  -6*
Come on ba-by, make it hurt so good.
 -6*   6    -6*   5*   -5   5*  -4   -3    
Some-times love don't feel like it should.
-3   -4  -3  4*  -4  -3
You make it hurt so good.

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