You Don't Mess Around With Jim chords by Jim Croce
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Intro 1
(E major) (E major) (E major) (E major)
Verse 1
(E major) Uptown got it's hustlers
The bowery got it's bums
(E major) 42nd street got big Jim Walker
He's a pool shootin' son of a gun
Yeah, he big (A major) and dumb as a man can come
But he's stronger than a country hoss
And when the (B major) bad folks
all get to (A major) gether at night
You know they (B major) all call big Jim boss, (A major)
just because (E major)
And they say
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Chorus 1
You don't (A major) tug on superman's (E major) cape
You don't (A major) spit into the wind (E major)
You don't (A major) pull the mask
off that old lone ranger
And you (B major) don't mess around with Jim (E major) (E major)
(B major) (B major)
Verse 2
Well outta (E major) south Alabama
come a country boy
He said I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
I am a (E major) pool shootin' boy
My name Willie McCoy
But down home they call me Slim
Yeah I'm lookin' (A major) for
the king of 42nd street
He drivin' a drop top Cadillac
Last week he took (B major) all my money
And it (A major) may sound funny
But I (B major) come to get my money back (A major)
And everybody (E major) say Jack don't you know
Chorus 2
And you don't tug (A major) on superman's (E major) cape
You don't (A major) spit into the wind (E major)
You don't (A major) pull the mask
off that old lone ranger
And you (B major) don't mess around with Jim (E major) (E major)
(B major) (B major)
Verse 3
Well hush (E major) fell over the pool room
And Jimmy come boppin' in off of the street
And when the (E major) cuttin' were done
The only part that wasn't bloody
Was the soles of the big man's feet
Yeah he were (A major) cut in bout
a hundred places
And he were shot in a couple more
And you (B major) better believe
they sung a (A major) different kind of story
when (B major) big Jim hit the floor (A major)
(E major) Now they say
Chorus 3
You don't (A major) tug on superman's (E major) cape
You don't (A major) spit into the wind (E major)
You don't (A major) pull the mask
off that old lone ranger
And you (B major) don't mess around with Slim (E major) (E major)
Bridge 1
(E major) Yeah, big Jim got his hat
Find out where it's at
And its not hustlin' people strange to you
(E major) Even if you do got a two piece
custom made pool cue
Chorus 4
Yeah you don't tug (A major) on superman's (E major) cape
You don't (A major) spit into the wind (E major)
You don't (A major) pull the mask
off that old lone ranger
And you (B major) don't mess around with Slim
Outro 1
(E major) (E major) (E major) (E major)
(E major) (E major) (E major) (E major)
[Repeat and fade]
You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Jim Croce
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