Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse1

continue pattern until C)

Hu--ng my cotton dress on rusted wire

Up there on Pilahatchee Bridge

Just a crazy roughneck's daughter

 Jumped head-first into the water

Baptized away my sins

Verse2

same pattern and chords as above)

Hitched to town with Bobby Jo and Tommy

Couple of lookers, new best friends

We slipped in the back of Sunday service

Know them church ladies, they heard us

Bum smoke money from the offering

Chorus

2nd half continues intro pattern)

Mama said, "Idle hands are Devil's handywork"

 Oh, the trouble you'll get into

 You got nothin' better to do, got nothin' better to do

You got nothin' better to do, got nothin' better to do

Yeah!

Oh, yeah

Verse3

same chords as before)

Sign read: BAIT, CHIPS BEER and AMMUNITION

That Slim-Jim bag boy hadn't a prayer

Well I hiked my skirt and did the talkin'

While them boys were busy walkin'

Case of .5 out the back door

Verse4

same as before)

Hid deep in the Mississippi backwoods

We danced and played around 'til dark

Well I had them wrestlin' for my first kiss

Turned into a fight and they missed

Me speeding off in Tommy's car

Chorus

same as before, until last G)

Mama said, "Idle hands are Devil's handywork"

Oh, the trouble you'll get into

You got nothin' better to do, got nothin' better to do

You got nothin' better to do, got nothin' better to do

Yeah!

Interlude

/ / = 021200

Nobody hurt, nobody harmed

C#m7#5 C>> straight into chorus C#m7#5 = x42200

Nobody's busines but my own

Chorus

 Mama said, "Idle hands are Devil's handwork

 Oh, the trouble you'll get into!"

 You got nothin' better to do, got nothin' better to do

You got nothin' better to do, got nothin' better to do

You got nothin' better to do, got nothin' better to do

You got nothin' better to do, got nothin' better to do

Yeah!

(continue the intro pattern until the end)

Oh, yeah

Got nothin' better to do, babe

Got nothin' better to do

You got nothin' better to do, babe

Ya got nothin' better to do, no no

Got nothin' better to do!

Ya got nothin' better to do, no no

Got nothin' better to do!

You got nothin' better to do, no no!

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