You Don't Mess Around With Jim Jim Croce
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 outta (E) South Alabama come a country boy
He said I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
I am a pool-shootin' boy, my name is (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 it (A7) may sound 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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