You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Jim Croce
E E7
EUptown E7got it's Ehustlers
The bowery E7got it's 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 Astronger than a country hoss
And when the H7bad folks all get togAether at night
You know they H7all call big Jim "ABoss", just because
And they E7say
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 H7don't mess A7around with EJimH
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 A7drop top Cadillac
Last week he H7took all my money
And it Amay sound funny
But I H7come to get my money Aback
And everybody say E7Jack don't you know
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 H7don't mess A7around with EJimH
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 A7shot in a couple more
And you H7better believe
They Asung a different kind of story
When H7big Jim hit the Afloor, now theE7y say
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 H7don't mess A7around with ESlim
EYeah, big Jim got his hat
EFind out where it's at
EAnd it's not hustling people strange to you
EEven if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue
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 H7don't mess A7around with ESlimE7H7E