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You Don't Mess Around With Jim Jim Croce
(E) Uptown got its hustlers, The bowery got its bums, 42nd street got Big Jim Walker he's a pool-shootin' (E7) son-of-a-(E) gun Yeah, he's (A7) big and dumb as a man can come But he's stronger than a country hoss And when the (B7) bad folks all get to (A7) gether at night You know they (B7) all call Big Jim (A7) "Boss" Just be (E) cause... and they say... (Chorus) You don't (A7) tug on Superman's (E7) cape You don't (A7) spit into the (E7) wind You don't (A7) pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger and you (B7) don't mess around with (E7) Jim Ba-doo-doo-boo-da- (E) dee-dee-dee-dee- (B7) dee Well outa (E) South Alabama come a country boy He said I'm lookin' for a man named Jim I am a pool-shootin' boy, by name of (E7) Willie McCoy But down home they call me (E) "Slim" Yeah, I'm (A7) lookin' for the king of 42nd street He drivin' a drop-top Cadillac Last week he (B7) took all my money and he (A7) think that funny but I (B7) come to get my money (A7) back and everybody (E) say,"Jack... don't you know..." (repeat Chorus) Well a (E) hush feel over the pool room Jimmy come a-boppin' in off the street And when the cuttin' was done the only (E7) part that wasn't bloody was the soles of the big man's (E) feet Yeah, he was (A7) cut in 'bout a hundred places and he was shot in a couple more And you (B7) better believe they sung a (A7) different kind of story when (B7) Big Jim hit the (A7) floor Uhuhuh (E) huh... now they say... You don't (A7) tug on Superman's (E7) cape You don't (A7) spit into the (E7) wind You don't (A7) pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger and you (B7) don't mess around with (E7) SLIM mm-mm-mm-mm-(E) mm-mm-mm-mm (E7) (Spoken, use E-E7 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." Yeah you don't (A7) tug on Superman's (E7) cape You don't (A7) spit into the (E7) wind You don't (A7) pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger and you (B7) don't mess around with (E7) SLIM mm-mm-mm-mm-(E) mm-mm-mm-mm (E7) mm-mm-mm-mm mm-mm-mm-mm-(E) mm-mm-mm-mm (E7) mm-mm-mm-mm mm-mm-mm-mm-(E) mm-mm-mm-mm (E7) mm-mm-mm-mm
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