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Nothin' Better To Do

by Leann Rimes · posted by TIN_MAN

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NOTHIN’ BETTER TO DO 		LEANN RIMES


Hey Y’all its Tin Man Again giving you an big Country 
Hit of 07/08  

YOUR GONNA NEED A E HARP TO PLAY THIS!

DON’T FORGET TO VOTE AND ADD TO FAVOURITES!


  -5  -7 -6b  7   -6b  -5  5   4   -4
Hung my cot-ton dress on rus-ted wire

7    -6b  7 -6b -5 5   -4    -4
Up there on Pe-la-hat-chee Bridge

 -6b -6 5  -5   -4    4      -4  -6b
Just a cra-zy rough-neck's daugh-ter

 -6b    -6   -4   5  -5 -6b  -4 -4
Jumped head-first in-to the wat-er

4	 -4   5   5  -5 -6b -5
Bap-tized a-way my sins

 -6b    5  -6b  7   -6b 5   5   4   -4 -6b
Hitched to town with Bob-by Joe and Tom-my

 4  -6b  7  -6b -5    5    4     -4
Cou-ple of look-ers, new best friends

-6b  -6b    4  -4   5  -5  -4  4   -4  -6b
We slipped in the back of Sun-day ser-vice

 -6b  -4    -4    5  -5    -5   -4   -4
Know them church la-dies, they heard us

  4      -4   5  -5  -6b  -5 -5 -6b  -7
Bummed smoke mon-ey from the of-fer-ing

 -4   -4    -4  4  -6b   4   -4  -4   -4  4 -6b
Mama said, "I-dle hands are Dev-il's hand-i-work"

 4   -4  -4   -4   -4    4  -6b 7
Oh, the trou-ble you'll get in-to

 6  -7   -5  -6b  4   4  4  -6b
You got noth-in' bet-ter to do, 

-6b  -5  -6b  4   4   4 -6b
got noth-in' bet-ter to do

6  -7   -5  -6b  4   4  4  -6b
You got noth-in' bet-ter to do, 

-6b  -5  -6b  4   4   4 -6b
got noth-in' bet-ter to do

 8
Yeah!

-5   -4
Oh, yeah

  -5   -7  -6b     7   -6b  -5  5   4 -4 -6b
Sign read Bait, Chips Beer and Am-mun-i-tion

 7    -6b  7  -6b  -5   5   -4  -4
That Slim-Jim bag boy hadn't a prayer

 -6b -6b  -6b -6   5    -5  -4  4   -4  -6b
Well I  hiked my skirt and did the talk-in'

-6b    -6   -4   5  -5 -6b  -4 -4
While them boys were bu-sy walk-in'

  4  -4  5  5  -5   -6b  -5
Case of .5 out the back door

-6b   5  -6b 7  -6b  5   5   4   -4 -6b
Hid deep in the Mis-sis-sip-pi back-woods

4    -6b   7    -6b  -5  5     4   -4
We danced and played a-round 'til dark

-6b -6b 4    -4   5   -5    -4 4   -4  -6b
Well I had them wrest-lin' for my first kiss

 -6b   -4 -4 5  -5    -5   -4   -4
Turned in-to a fight and they missed

-4   5  -5   -6b -5 -5  -6b  -7
Me speed-ing off in Tom-my's car

-4   -4    -4  4  -6b   4   -4  -4   -4  4 -6b
Mama said, "I-dle hands are Dev-il's hand-i-work"

 4   -4  -4   -4   -4    4  -6b 7
Oh, the trou-ble you'll get in-to

 6  -7   -5  -6b  4   4  4  -6b
You got noth-in' bet-ter to do, 

-6b  -5  -6b  4   4   4 -6b
got noth-in' bet-ter to do

6  -7   -5  -6b  4   4  4  -6b
You got noth-in' bet-ter to do, 

-6b  -5  -6b  4   4   4 -6b
got noth-in' bet-ter to do

 8
Yeah!


-6b-6b-6b -5b  -6b-6b-6b -5b
No-bo-dy hurt, no-bo-dy harmed

-4 -4  4    -4   4    -4  5  4
No-bo-dy's bus-‘ness but my own

-4   -4    -4  4  -6b   4   -4  -4   -4  4 -6b
Mama said, "I-dle hands are Dev-il's hand-i-work"

 4   -4  -4   -4   -4    4  -6b 7
Oh, the trou-ble you'll get in-to

 6  -7   -5  -6b  4   4  4  -6b
You got noth-in' bet-ter to do, 

-6b  -5  -6b  4   4   4 -6b
got noth-in' bet-ter to do

6  -7   -5  -6b  4   4  4  -6b
You got noth-in' bet-ter to do, 

-6b  -5  -6b  4   4   4 -6b
got noth-in' bet-ter to do

 8
Yeah!


-5   -4
Oh, yeah

-4   -4    -4  4  -6b   4   -4  -4   -4  4 -6b
Mama said, "I-dle hands are Dev-il's hand-i-work"

 4   -4  -4   -4   -4    4  -6b 7
Oh, the trou-ble you'll get in-to

 6  -7   -5  -6b  4   4  4  -6b
You got noth-in' bet-ter to do, 

-6b  -5  -6b  4   4   4 -6b
got noth-in' bet-ter to do

6  -7   -5  -6b  4   4  4  -6b
You got noth-in' bet-ter to do, 

-6b  -5  -6b  4   4   4 -6b
got noth-in' bet-ter to do

 8
Yeah!

-5   -4
Oh, yeah

ENJOY!!!
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