Not innocent enough chords by Nanci Griffith

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Verse 1
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 (G major) What the hell was I doing there
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In that  (C major) fast- food parking lot  (G major) 
They say I robbed the restaurant
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and a  (D major) Memphis cop got shot
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I was  (C major) trying to feed my habit  (E minor) 
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I was  (C major) scared and I was high  (E minor) 
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It was  (C major) never my inten (E minor) tion
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That  (D major) anyone should die  (G major) 

Verse 2
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Just how  (C major) many of us are  (G major) innocent enough
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Just how  (C major) many of us are  (G major) innocent enough
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Just how  (C major) many of us are  (D major) innocent enough  (G major) 
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My  (C major) name is Philip Workman
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And I'm not  (D major) innocent enough
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 (G major) 

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Verse 3

It's not a long walk from a trailer park

to a Tennessee cell block

But I got saved behind these bars

Soon I'll give my soul to God

Reverend Joe is praying for me

And the family left behind

They say my bullet took his life

but that bullet was not mine

Verse 4
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Just how  (C major) many of us are  (G major) innocent enough
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Just how  (C major) many of us are  (G major) innocent enough
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Just how  (C major) many of us are  (D major) innocent enough  (G major) 
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My  (C major) name is Philip Workman
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And I'm not  (D major) innocent enough
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 (G major) 

Verse 5
I had no money for a lawyer
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To fight the  (C major) system from with (G major) in
There's no justice for the poor
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From the  (D major) witness they brought in
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 (C major) Circumstance and ran (E minor) dom chance
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I never  (C major) meant to do no harm  (E minor) 
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Now that  (C major) cop and I,
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 (E minor) we've both died
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from that  (D major) needle in my arm  (G major) 

Verse 6
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And there where  (C major) those
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who called for  (E minor) mercy
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 (D major) In those final days  (G major) 
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Even the  (C major) of ficer's daugh (E minor) ter
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 (D major) cried to grant me stay
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but I'm not  (C major) innocent enough
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I'm not  (G major) innocent enough
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I'm not  (C major) innocent enough
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I'm not  (D major) innocent enough  (G major) 

Verse 7
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Just how  (C major) many of us are  (G major) innocent enough
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Just how  (C major) many of us are  (G major) innocent enough
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Just how  (C major) many of us are  (D major) innocent enough  (G major) 
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My  (C major) name is Philip Workman
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And I'm not  (D major) innocent enough  (G major) 