You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Key: EEnglish
Intro
E E7
Verse
EUptown E7got its Ehustlers
The bowery E7got its Ebums
42nd Street got E7Big Jim EWalker
He's a pool-shooting E7son of a Egun
Yeah, he Abig and dumb as a man can come
But he Estronger than a E7country Ehoss
And when the B7bad folks all get toAgether at night
You know they A7all call big Jim "EBoss", just because
And they E7say
Chorus
You don't Atug on A7Superman's Ecape
You don't Aspit A7into the Ewind
You don't Apull the mask off that A7old Lone Ranger
And you B7don't mess aA7round with EJim
Verse
Well outta Esouth AlaE7bama came a Ecountry boy
He say I'm looking for a E7man named EJim
I am a E7pool-shooting Eboy
My name E7Willie EMcCoy
But down home they E7call me ESlim
Yeah I'm Alooking for the king of 42nd Street
He driving a E7drop top CadilElac
Last week he B7took all my money
And it Amay sound funny
But I A7come to get my Amoney Eback
And everybody E7say Jack don't you know
Chorus
You don't Atug on A7Superman's Ecape
You don't Aspit A7into the Ewind
You don't Apull the mask off that A7old Lone Ranger
And you B7don't mess aA7round with EJim
Verse
Well a Ehush fell E7over the Epool room
Jimmy come bopping in E7off the Estreet
And when the E7cutting were Edone
The only E7part that wasn't Ebloody
Was the E7soles of the big man's Efeet
Yeah he were Acut in bout a hundred places
And he were Eshot in a couple E7more
And you B7better believe
They sung a Adifferent kind of A7story
When big AJim hit the Efloor, now they E7say
Chorus
You don't Atug on A7Superman's Ecape
You don't Aspit A7into the Ewind
You don't Apull the mask off that A7old Lone Ranger
And you B7don't mess aA7round with ESlim
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 Atug on A7Superman's Ecape
You don't Aspit A7into the Ewind
You don't Apull the mask off that A7old Lone Ranger
And you B7don't mess aA7round with ESlim
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