Nothin' Better To Do

Album: Family (2007)
Charted: 48 73
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  • Hung my cotton dress on rusted wire
    Up there on Pelahatchie Bridge
    Just a crazy roughneck's daughter
    Jumped head first into the water
    Baptized away my sins

    Hitched to town with Bobby Jo and Tommy
    Couple of lookers new best friends
    We slipped in back of the Sunday service
    Know them church ladies they heard us
    Bum smoke money from the offering

    Mama said "idle hands are devil's handy work"
    Oh the trouble you'll get into
    When you've got nothin' better to do, got nothing better to do
    You got nothin' better to do, got nothing better to do
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

    Sign read bait, chips, beer and ammunition
    That slim-Jim bad boy hadn't a prayer
    I hiked my skirt and did the talkin'
    While them boys were busy walkin'
    Case of point five out the back door

    Hid deep in the Mississippi back woods
    We danced and played around til' dark
    I had them wrestling for my first kiss
    Turned into a fight and they missed
    Me speeding off in Tommy's car

    Mamma said "idle hands are devil's handy work"
    Oh the trouble you'll get into
    When you've got nothin' better to do, got nothing better to
    You've got nothin' better to do, got nothing better to do
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

    Nobody hurt, nobody harmed
    Nobody's business but my own

    Mamma said "idle hands are devil's handy work"
    Oh the trouble you'll get into
    When you've got nothin' better to do, got nothing better to
    You've got nothin' better to do, got nothing better to do
    You've got nothin' better to do, got nothing better to do
    You've got nothin' better to do, got nothing better to do
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

    Got nothin' better to do babe, got nothing better to do
    Got nothin' better to do babe, got nothing better to do
    Got nothin' better to do babe, got nothing better to do
    Got nothin' better to do babe, got nothing better to do
    Got nothin' better to do babe, got nothing better to do Writer/s: KELLY NICKELS, MICK CRIPPS, PHILIP LEWIS, TRACII GUNNS
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Songtrust Ave, Universal Music Publishing Group
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