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Type: Chords & Lyrics, etc.
Version: 1
Created by: Bagus
Created: 3/28/2026
Updated: 3/28/2026
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You Don't Mess Around with Jim
Chords & Lyrics, etc. · v1
Intro: E E7
E E7 E E7 E
Uptown got it's hustlers The bowery got it's bums
E7 E E7 E
42nd Street got Big Jim Walker He's a pool-shooting son of a gun
A
Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come But he stronger than a country hoss
B7 A B7 A
And when the bad folks all get together at night You know they all call big Jim "Boss", just because
E7
And they say
A A7 E A. A7 E
You don't tug on Superman's cape You don't spit into the wind
A A7 B7 A7 E B
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger And you don't mess around with Jim
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Well outta south Alabama came a country boy. He say I'm looking for a man named Jim
I am a pool-shooting boy My name Willie McCoy But down home they call me Slim
Yeah I'm looking for the king of 42nd Street He driving a drop top Cadillac
Last week he took all my money And it may sound funny But I come to get my money back
And everybody say Jack don't you know
Chorus
Well a hush fell over the pool room Jimmy come bopping in off the street
And when the cutting were done the only part that wasn't bloody Was the soles of the big man's feet
Yeah he were cut in bout a hundred places And he were shot in a couple more
And you better believe They sung a different kind of story When big Jim hit the floor,
now they say
Chorus
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
Chorus