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(Ba-doo-da-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doot)

	G
Uptown got its hustlers,

	G
Bowery got its bums

	G
42nd street got Big Jim Walker;

	G7
he a pool-shootin' son-of-a-gun

	C F C F
Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come

	C F C
and meaner than a country hoss

	D C
And when the bad folks all get together at night

	D C
You know they all call Big Jim "Boss"

	G C G
just because-- and they say...

	Cborus

	C7 G
You don't tug on Superman's cape

	C7 G
You don't spit into the wind

	C7
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger

	D7 G C7 G C7
and you don't mess around with Jim

	G
Well outa South Alabama come a country

He said I'm lookin' for a man named Jim

I am a pool-shootin' boy, my name is Willie McCoy

	G7
But down home they call me "Slim"

	C F C F
Yeah, I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd street

	C F C
He drivin' a drop-top Cadillac

	D C
Last week he took all my money and it may sound funny

	D C
but I come to get my money back

	G C G
and everybody say, "Hey Jack... don't you know..."

	repeat Cborus

	G
Well a hush feel over the pool room

Jimmy come a-boppin' in off the street

And when the cuttin' was done the only part that wasn't bloody

	G7
was the soles of the big man's feet

	C F C F
Yeah, he were cut in 'bout a hundred places

	C F C
and he were shot in a couple more

	D C
And you better believe they sung a different kind of story

	D C
when Big Jim hit the floor

	G C G
Whoa... now they say...

	C7 G
You don't tug on Superman's cape

	C7 G
You don't spit into the wind

	C7
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger

	D7 G C7 G C7
and you don't mess around with "Slim"

	Spoken, use G-C progression

"Yeah Big Jim got his hat, find out where it's at

and it's not hustlin' people strange to you

Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue."

	repeat "Slim" Cborus

Enjoy, STEVE

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you dont mess around

Jim Croce

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