You Don’t Mess Around With Jim (Live At Santander Arena, Reading, PA / May 18, 2017) chords by Eric Church
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Verse 1
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Uptown got it's hustlers
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The bowery got it's bums
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 stronger than a country hoss
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And when the bad folks all
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get together at night
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You know they all call big Jim boss,
just because
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And they say
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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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And you don't mess around with Jim
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Well outta south Alabama
came a country boy
He say I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
I am a pool shootin' boy
My name Willie McCoy
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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
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And you don't tug on
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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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And you don't mess around with Jim
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Well a hush fell over the pool room
Jimmy come boppin' in off the street
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 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
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You don't tug on su perman'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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And you don't mess around with slim
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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
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Yeah you don't tug on
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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 the old lone ranger
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And you don't mess around with slim
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You Don’t Mess Around With Jim (Live At Santander Arena, Reading, PA / May 18, 2017)
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