Get A Leg Up Chords by John Mellencamp

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_ _ [A] _ Don't look at me, don't touch me.
Keep your mind straight ahead.
_ _ _ Don't get no funny ideas about me.
We wish that you were [D] there.
_ _ _ I put on thinking, [C] she must be thinking.
[D] Girl, I spent 53 bucks [C] on last night.
_ _ [A] Gives me a look from the corner of her eye.
Says, boy, you're back [G] on right.
I [B] _ was surprised when she leaned [E] over and whistled in my ear.
[A] Get a leg up.
_ Ah, _ _ _ _ boy, [D] get a [A] leg up.
_ [G] _
What's the matter?
[A] I'm just shy, shy, shy.
[D] _ _ [A] _ I'm pretty good with first impressions.
_ _ Sometimes not, always right.
_ _ _ I pulled the car up the shoulder [F#m] of the [A] road
to see what she [D] had in mind.
_ _ You want to [C] spend the night.
[G] Hey, [D] lover boy, you know [C] I will.
_ [Am] _ [A] My best [G] girlfriend lives down the road.
[A] _ Together, we will fail you.
[B] And I'm thinking to myself, I [E] could be lucky, yeah, tonight.
If I [A] could get a leg up.
[G] If I could get a [A] leg up, boy.
Yeah.
[G] _
You know I [A] ain't that handsome, no.
But you know I ain't shy, [G] shy, shy.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ The _
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_ [G] _ [A] _ rest of the night [D] went on and [A] on.
And more to this [F#m] song.
_ [A] _ Don't go making [G] hasty judgments, because [A] _ _ sometimes the good,
they're wrong.
_ [C] _ [D] _ Nothing wrong with a good job.
So next time, just keep yourself protected, [C] baby, Liz.
[G] [A] You can bet your life [D] that the women don't know the [A] little girls
acting like this, yeah.
[B] So next time when your woman moves up,
[E] ask her, when's the last time you offed her?
Hell, get a [A] leg up.
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Get a [A] leg up, boy.
_ [G] _ _
Get a [A] leg up.
_ [G] _
Now, don't [A] you be shy, [G] shy, shy.
Get a [A] leg up.
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Get a [A] leg up, boy.
_ [G] You [A] know I ain't that handsome, _ [G] _
no.
But you know I ain't [A] shy, [G] shy, shy.
Get [A] a leg _ up.
[G] _ _
[D] Get [A] a leg up, boy.
_ [D] _ _
Get a [A] leg up.
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Now, don't [A] you be shy, shy, [G] shy.
Oh, [A] shy. _ _ _ _ _
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