You dont mess around

Jim Croce



(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  

 CFCF
Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come     
 CFC
and meaner than a country hoss    
 DC
And when the bad folks all get together at night   
 DC
You know they all call Big Jim "Boss"    
 GCG
just because-- and they say...    

 Cborus
 C7G
You don't tug on Superman's cape   
 C7G
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"  

 CFCF
Yeah, I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd street     
 CFC
He drivin' a drop-top Cadillac    
 DC
Last week he took all my money and it may sound funny   
 DC
but I come to get my money back   
 GCG
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  

 CFCF
Yeah, he were cut in 'bout a hundred places     
 CFC
and he were shot in a couple more    
 DC
And you better believe they sung a different kind of story   
 DC
when Big Jim hit the floor   
 GCG
Whoa... now they say...    
 C7G
You don't tug on Superman's cape   
 C7G
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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