You Dont Mess Around with Jim

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Verse
E Em 
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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 

          A7                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 

           Em 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 


Verse
     E7 B7   E7 
Well ■  ■  a hush fell over the pool room 

           E7 
Jimmy come boppin' in off the street 

             E7 
And when the cuttin' were done 

         E7 
The only part that wasn't bloody 

        E7           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          E7 
You don't spit ■  into the wind 

          A7 
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger 

        B7                     E    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 

E                    E7 
Even if you do got a twopiece custom made pool cue 


Outro
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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 

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