Jim Croce – You Dont Mess Around With Jim (Guitar)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don%27t_Mess_Around_with_Jim E E7
E      E7       E
Uptown got it's hustlers 

           E7       E
The bowery got it's bums 

                E7      E
42nd Street got Big Jim Walker 

                     E7       E
He's a pool-shooting son of a gun 

         A
Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come 

       A              
But he stronger than a country hoss 

             B7                   A
And when the bad folks all get together at night 

              B7                A
You know they all call big Jim "Boss", just because 

         E7
And they say 

          A      A7         E
You don't tug on Superman's cape 

          A    A7       E
You don't spit into the wind 

          A                      A7
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger 

        B7          A7         E    B
And you don't mess around with Jim 

           E        E7          E
Well outta south Alabama came a country boy 

                         E7        E
He say I'm looking for a man named Jim 

       E7            E
I am a pool-shooting boy 

        E7       E
My name Willie McCoy 

                   E7      E
But down home they call me Slim 

         A
Yeah I'm looking for the king of 42nd Street 

            A7
He driving a drop top Cadillac 

             B7
Last week he took all my money 

       A
And it may sound funny 

      B7                   A     
But I come to get my money back 

                   E7
And everybody say Jack don't you know 

          A      A7         E
You don't tug on Superman's cape 

          A    A7       E
You don't spit into the wind 

          A                      A7
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger 

        B7          A7         E   B
And you don't mess around with Jim 

       E         E7       E
Well a hush fell over the pool room 

                      E7      E
Jimmy come bopping in off the street 

             E7           E
And when the cutting were done 

         E7               E
The only part that wasn't bloody 

        E7                     E
Was the soles of the big man's feet 

             A
Yeah he were cut in bout a hundred places 

            A7
And he were shot in a couple more 

        B7
And you better believe 

     A                
They sung a different kind of story

      B7              A             E7
When big Jim hit the floor,  now they say 

          A      A7         E
You don't tug on Superman's cape 

          A    A7       E
You don't spit into the wind 

          A                      A7
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger 

        B7          A7         E    
And you don't mess around with Slim

E
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
          A      A7         E
You don't tug on Superman's cape 

          A    A7       E
You don't spit into the wind 

          A                      A7
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger 

        B7          A7         E     E7 B7 E
And you don't mess around with Slim 
* Alternates: Capo II A = G A7 = G7 E = D E7 = D7 B7 = A7 B = A Capo IV A = F A7 = F7 E = C E7 = C7 B7 = G7 B = G Set8