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#-------------------------------PLEASE NOTE-------------------------------------# # This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # # song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------# You Don t Mess Around With Jim chords Jim Croce 1972 E E7 E E7 E Uptown got it's hustlers E7 E The bowery got it's bums E7 E 42nd Street got Big Jim Walker E7 E He's a pool-shooting son of a gun A Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come E E7 E But he stronger than a country hoss B7 A And when the bad folks all get together at night A7 E You know they all call big Jim "Boss", just because E7 And they say A A7 E You don't tug on Superman's cape A A7 E You don't spit into the wind A A7 You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger B7 A7 E And you don't mess around with Jim [ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/j/jim-croce/326683.html ] E E7 E Well outta south Alabama came a country boy E7 E He say I'm looking for a man named Jim E7 E I am a pool-shooting boy E7 E My name Willie McCoy E7 E But down home they call me Slim A Yeah I'm looking for the king of 42nd Street E7 E He driving a drop top Cadillac B7 Last week he took all my money A And it may sound funny A7 A E But I come to get my money back E7 And everybody say Jack don't you know A A7 E You don't tug on Superman's cape A A7 E You don't spit into the wind A A7 You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger B7 A7 E And you don't mess around with Jim E E7 E Well a hush fell over the pool room E7 E Jimmy come bopping in off the street E7 E And when the cutting were done E7 E The only part that wasn't bloody E7 E Was the soles of the big man's feet A Yeah he were cut in bout a hundred places E E7 And he were shot in a couple more B7 And you better believe A A7 They sung a different kind of story A E E7 When big Jim hit the floor, now they say A A7 E You don't tug on Superman's cape A A7 E You don't spit into the wind A A7 You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger B7 A7 E And you don't mess around with Slim Yeah, big Jim got his hat Find out where it's at And it's not hustling people strange to you Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue A A7 E You don't tug on Superman's cape A A7 E You don't spit into the wind A A7 You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger B7 A7 E E7 B7 E And you don't mess around with Slim Set8 |