You Don't Mess Around With Jim Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[D]Uptown got it's hustlers
The bowery got it's bums
[D]42nd street got big Jim Walker
He's a pool shootin' son of a gun
Yeah, he [G]big and dumb as a man can come
But he's stronger than a country hoss
And when the [A]bad folks
all get to[G]gether at night
You know they [A]all call big Jim [G]boss,
just be[D]cause
And they say

[Chorus 1]
You don't [G]tug on superman's [D]cape
You don't [G]spit into the [D]wind
You don't [G]pull the mask
off that old lone ranger
And you [A]don't mess around with [D]Jim[D]
[A][A]

[Verse 2]
Well outta [D]south Alabama
come a country boy
He said I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
I am a [D]pool shootin' boy
My name Willie McCoy
But down home they call me Slim
Yeah I'm [G]lookin' for
the king of 42nd street
He drivin' a drop top Cadillac
Last week he [A]took all my money
And it [G]may sound funny
But I [A]come to get my money [G]back
And everybody [D]say Jack don't you know

[Chorus 2]
And you don't [G]tug on superman's [D]cape
You don't [G]spit into the [D]wind
You don't [G]pull the mask
off that old lone ranger
And you [A]don't mess around with [D]Jim[D]
[A][A]

[Verse 3]
Well [D]hush fell over the pool room
And Jimmy come boppin' in off of the street
And when the [D]cuttin' were done
The only part that wasn't bloody
Was the soles of the big man's feet
Yeah he were [G]cut in bout
a hundred places
And he were shot in a couple more
And you [A]better believe
they sung a [G]different kind of story
when [A]big Jim hit the [G]floor
[D]Now they say

[Chorus 3]
You don't [G]tug on superman's [D]cape
You don't [G]spit into the [D]wind
You don't [G]pull the mask
off that old lone ranger
And you [A]don't mess around with [D]Slim[D]

[Bridge 1]
[D]Yeah, big Jim got his hat
Find out where it's at
And its not hustlin' people strange to you
[D]Even if you do got a two piece
custom made pool cue

[Chorus 4]
Yeah you don't [G]tug on superman's [D]cape
You don't [G]spit into the [D]wind
You don't [G]pull the mask
off that old lone ranger
And you [A]don't mess around with Slim

[Outro 1]
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[Repeat and fade]