You Dont Mess Around With Jim

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You Don't Mess Around With Jim chords *

Jim Croce 1972

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don%27t_Mess_Around_with_Jim

Intro

Verse 1

Uptown

got it's

hustlers

The bowery

got it's

bums

42nd Street got

Big Jim

Walker

He's a pool-shooting

son of a

gun

Yeah, he

big and dumb as a man can come

But he

stronger than a country hoss

And when the

bad folks all get tog

ether at night

You know they

all call big Jim "

Boss", just because

And they

say

Chorus

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 a

round with

Jim

Verse 2

Well outta

south Ala

bama came a

country boy

He say I'm looking for a

man named

Jim

I am a

pool-shooting

boy

My name

Willie Mc

Coy

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 J

ack don't you know

Chorus

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 a

round with

Jim

Verse 3

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 b

ig Jim hit the f

loor, now the

y say

Chorus

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 a

round with

Slim

Bridge

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

Chorus

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 a

round with

Slim

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