You Don't Mess Around With Jim chords *
Jim Croce 1972   

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

 


           
Uptown got it'

  
s hustlers 
            
The bowery got

      
 it's bums 
              
42nd Street go

        
t Big Jim Walk

er 
              
He's a pool-sh

            
ooting son of 

  
a gun 
         
Yeah, he big a

nd dumb as a m

an can come 
             
But he stronge

        
r than a count

ry hoss 
             
And when the b

             
ad folks all g

      
et together at

 night 
              
You know they 

            
all call big J

    
im "Boss", jus

t because 
         
And they say 

             
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 around wi

       
th Jim 

             
Well outta sou

            
th Alabama cam

    
e a country bo

y 
              
He say I'm loo

            
king for a man

       
 named Jim 
            
I am a pool-sh

       
ooting boy 
            
My name Willie

   
 McCoy 
              
But down home 

           
they call me S

lim 
         
Yeah I'm looki

ng for the kin

g of 42nd Stre

et 
            
He driving a d

rop top Cadill

ac 
             
Last week he t


ook all my mon

ey 
       
And it may sou

nd funny 
            
But I come to 

             
get my money b

     
ack 
              
And everybody 

     
say Jack don't

 you know 

             
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 around wi

      
th Jim 

             
Well a hush fe

          
ll over the po

ol room 
              
Jimmy come bop

            
ping in off th

  
e street 
             
And when the c

           
utting were do

ne 
            
The only part 

            
that wasn't bl

oody 
            
Was the soles 

              
of the big man

   
's feet 
             
Yeah he were c

ut in bout a h

undred places 
            
And he were sh

ot in a couple

 more 
        
And you better

 believe 
             
They sung a di

        
fferent kind o

f story
            
When big Jim h

             
it the floor, 

        
 now they say 

             
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 around wi

       
th Slim
 

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 

             
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 around wi

          
th Slim 

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