You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Jim Croce
metonymo tab
Standard tuning (tuned down half step, instead of E (eadghe) it is D# (d#g#c#f#a#d#)).
The tab is from the "fretkillr" version (se youtube).
The shuffle rytem is mostly like that in the last four bars of the intro:
^ ^ v ^ ^ v ^ ^ v ^ v ^
E7/h E7/c# E7/d E7/c#
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h=hammer-on
p=pull off
x=muted (mostly with ring finger)
^= downstroke
v= upstroke
Intro
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v v v
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E7/h E7/c# E7/d E7/c#
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Verse
E7/h E7/c# E7/d E7/c#
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Uptown got it's hustlers
The bowery got it's bums
42nd Street got Big Jim Walker He's a
E7/h E7/c# E7
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pool- shootin' son of a gun He's
A7/e A7/f# A7/g
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big and dumb as a man can come
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stronger than a coun - try hoss And when the
H7 A7
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bad folks all get together at night They
H7 H7/f# A
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all call big Jim "Boss", just be - cause
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/j/jim-croce/359214.html ]
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you don't
Refrain
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Tug on Super - man's cape, you don't
A Em7
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Spit into the wind, you don't
A
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Pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger, and you
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Don't mess around with Jim dikke - do - da
E7 Em/c# H7
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dikk dike di da yeah
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Well outta south...
The rest of the verses is played in the same manner, with some variations.
Chords
E7/h x2010x
E7/c# x4020x
E7/d x5040x
E7 02010x
A7/e xx202x (A7/Em6)
A7/f# xx403x (A6/Em9)
A7/g xx545x (A7sus2/Em)
A x0222x
H7 x21202
H7/f# 2x1202
Em7/d xxx787
Em7 020033
E7/h E7/c# E7/d E7/c#
Uptown got it's hustlers
The bowery got it's bums
42nd Street got Big Jim Walker
E7/h E7/c# E7 (f#-g-g#)
He's a pool-shooting son of a gun
A7/e A7/f# A7/g
He is big and dumb as a man can come
A7/e A7/f# A7/g
But he stronger than a country hoss
H7 A7
And when the bad folks all get together at night
H7 H7/f# A
They all call big Jim "Boss", just because
E7/h E7/c# E7/d E7/c#
... ... ... ... you don't
A E7 Em7/d
Tug on Superman's cape, you don't
A Em7
Spit into the wind, you don't
A
Pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger, and you
H7 E7
Don't mess around with Jim, dike-do-da
E7/h E7/c# H7
dikk-dike-di-da yeah
Well outta south Alabama came a country boy
He say I'm looking for a man named Jim
I am a pool-shooting boy
My name Willie McCoy
But down home they call me Slim
Yeah I'm looking for the king of 42nd Street
He driving a drop top Cadillac
Last week he took all my money, and it may sound funny
But I come to get my money back
And everybody say, hey Jack, you don't
Ref.
Well a hush fell over the pool room
Jimmy come bopping in off the street
And when the cutting were done
The only part that wasn't bloody
Was the soles of the big man's feet
Yeah he were cut in bout a hundred places
And he were shot in a couple more
And you better believe
They sung a different kind of story
When big Jim hit the floor, now they say
You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Slim
Yeah, big Jim got his hat
He found 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
Ref.
