You Don't Mess Around With Jim original guitar chords by
Jim Croce
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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Uptown got it's hustlers
The bowery got it's bums
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42nd street got big Jim Walker
He's a pool shootin' son of a gun
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Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
But he's stronger than a country hoss
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And when the bad folks
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all get together at night
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You know they all call big Jim boss,
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just because
And they say
Chorus 1
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You don't tug on superman's cape
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You don't spit into the wind
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You don't pull the mask
off that old lone ranger
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E7
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And you don't mess around with Jim
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Verse 2
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Well outta south Alabama
come a country boy
He said I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
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I am a pool shootin' boy
My name Willie McCoy
But down home they call me Slim
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Yeah I'm lookin' for
the king of 42nd street
He drivin' a drop top Cadillac
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Last week he took all my money
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And it may sound funny
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But I come to get my money back
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And everybody say Jack don't you know
Chorus 2
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And you don't tug on superman's cape
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You don't spit into the wind
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You don't pull the mask
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And you don't mess around with Jim
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Verse 3
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Well hush fell over the pool room
And Jimmy come boppin' in off of the street
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And when the cuttin' were done
The only part that wasn't bloody
Was the soles of the big man's feet
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Yeah he were cut in bout
a hundred places
And he were shot in a couple more
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And you better believe
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they sung a different kind of story
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when big Jim hit the floor
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Now they say
Chorus 3
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You don't tug on superman's cape
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You don't spit into the wind
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You don't pull the mask
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And you don't mess around with Slim
Bridge 1
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Yeah, big Jim got his hat
Find out where it's at
And its not hustlin' people strange to you
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Even if you do got a two piece
custom made pool cue
Chorus 4
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Yeah you don't tug on superman's cape
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You don't spit into the wind
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You don't pull the mask
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And you don't mess around with Slim
Outro 1
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