You Don't Mess Around with Jim Chords by Jim Croce

[Start]

[Verse]
E Em E               Em      
■ ■  Uptown got it's hustlers
    Em                  
The bowery got it's bums
Em                                  
Fortytwond street got big Jim Walker
       Em                        
He's a pool shootin' son of a gun
          A7                            
Yeah he's big and dumb as a man can come
         A7                          
But he's stronger than a country hoss
             B7                A7               
And when the bad folks all get together at night
         B7                    A7        Em     
You know they all call big Jim boss just because
A7          
And they say
                            E7  
You don't tug on Superman's cape
          A7            E7  
You don't spit into the wind
          A7                                    
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
        B                      Em 
And you don't mess around with Jim
     B7    Em                 E7           
Well outta south Alabama came a country boy
            E                       E7 
He said I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
E                       
I am a pool shootin' boy
          E           
My name's Willie McCoy
         E                     
But down home they call me Slim


[Chorus]
         A               D       A7               
Yeah I'm lookin' for the king of fortytwond street
             A        D        A D
He drivin' a drop top cadillac ■ ■
             B                
Last week he took all my money
       A              
And it may sound funny
      B                    A   
But I come to get my money back
              E                 E7      
And everybody say Jack uh don't you know
              A7                E7  
And you don't tug on Superman's cape
          A7            E7  
You don't spit into the wind
          A7                                    
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
        B7                     E7 
And you don't mess around with Jim
B7     E7                          
Well a hush fell over the pool room


[Verse]
           E7                       
Jimmy come boppin' in off the street
             E7               
And when the cuttin' were done
         E7                     
The only part that wasn't bloody
                     E             
Was the soles of the big man's feet
        A                   D         A     
Yeah he was cut in in 'bout a hundred places
D          A         D      A7   A
And he was shot in a couple more ■
        B             
And you better believe
          A                        
They sung a different kind of story
B                    A    
When big Jim hit the floor
E   E7         
Now ■  they say


[Chorus]
          A7                E7  
You don't tug on Superman's cape
          A7   E7 A7       E7  
You don't spit ■  into the wind
          A7                                    
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
        B7                     E   
And you don't mess around with Slim
                     E  
Yeah big Jim got his hat
         E            
Find out where it's at
                      E                    
And it's not hustlin' people strange to you
                     E7                           
Even if you do got a twopiece custom made pool cue


[Outro]
               A7                E7  
Yeah you don't tug on Superman's cape
          A7            E7  
You don't spit into the wind
Em           A7                                   
■  You don't pull the mask off the old lone ranger
        B7                     E7  
And you don't mess around with Slim
E E7 E E7 E E7
■ ■  ■ ■  ■ ■ 
E E7 E E7
■ ■  ■ ■ 


[End]