Chords for You Don't Mess Around With Jim

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_ _ Uptown's got its _ hustlers, _ _ Bowery's got its bum, _ _
_ 42nd Street's got Big Jim Walker, he's a hole-shooting son of a gun.
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[F] He's big and dumb as a man can come, [Eb] but he's stronger than a [F] country hoss. _
[G] And when the bad folks [F] all get together at night, [G] you know they all call Big [F] Jim Boss
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_ _ just because.
_ And they say [F] you don't tug on _ [C] Superman's cape, [F] you don't spit into [C] the wind,
[F] you don't pull the mask off the old old Ranger, [G] and you [Eb] don't mess [D] around [C] with Jim.
Doot doot doot doot doot dot and dee [F] dee [G] _ _
dee.
_ _ Well out [C] of South Alabama come a country [Cm] boy, [C] he said I'm looking for a man named Jim.
_ I am a pool-shooting boy, my name is Willie McCoy, but down home they call me Slim.
_ [F] Yeah I'm looking for the king of 42nd Street, driving a drop-top _ Cadillac.
Last [G] week he took all my money, [F] and it may sound funny, but [G] I've come to get my [F] money back.
_ [C] Everybody say Jack, don't you [Gm] know that you [A] don't tug on _
[C] Superman's cape,
[F] you don't spit _ [C] into the wind, _ [F] you don't pull the mask off the old old Ranger,
[Gm] and you don't mess around [C] with Jim. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Well a hush fell over [C] the pool room, and Jimmy come bopping in off [Gm] the street.
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[E] And when the cutting was [C] done, the only part [E] that wasn't bloody was [F] the sole of the big man's [Cm] feet. _
[F] Yeah he was cutting about a hundred places, and he was shot in a couple more.
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[G] And you better believe [F] they sung a different kind [Eb] of story [G] when Big Jim hit [F] the floor. _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Cm] Now [G] they say [A] you don't tug on _ [C] Superman's cape, [F] you don't spit _ [C] into the wind,
[F] you don't pull the mask off the old old Ranger, [G] and you don't mess around [Cm] with Slim. _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [C] Well a hush fell over the pool room, and Jimmy come bopping in off the street.
_ And when the cutting was done, the only part that wasn't [F] _ _ _
[C] _ bloody was the sole of the big man's feet.
Yeah _ _ [Eb] he was cutting about [C] a hundred places, _ and _ _ _ _ _ Jimmy come bopping in off the street.
And when [Cm] the cutting was done, the only part that wasn't bloody was the sole of the big man's [C] feet.
Bye.
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[Cm] Bye. _ _ _ _ _ _
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