Josh Turner - You Don'T Mess Around With Jim guitar chord

You Don't Mess Around With Jim--Josh Turner

written by Jim Croce

From the album "Long Black Train"

Seems like everybody's recorded this song at some point in their career...oh, well,

at least Turner does a hell of a job on it. Corrections welcome, of course.

INTRO: C Csus4 C Csus4 C Csus4 C F

C

Uptown's got its hustlers, the Bowry's got its bums

Csus4

And forty-second street's got Big Jim Walker

C

He's a pool shootin' son of a gun

F

Yeah he's big and dumb as a man can come

And he's stronger than a country hoss

Bb

And when the bad folks all get together at night

F C

You know they all call Big Jim boss, just because, and they say

CHORUS:

F C

You don't tug on Superman's cape

F C

You don't spit into the wind

F Csus4

You don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger

Bb F C F C Csus4

And you don't mess around with Jim, do do do do da dee dee dee

Well outta south Alabama came a country boy

He said "I'm lookin for a man named Jim

I'm a pool shootin boy my name is Willie McCoy

At home they just call me Slim

Yeah I'm lookin for the king of forty-second street drivin a drop top Cadillac

Last week he took all my money and it may sound funny

But I've come to get my money back" and everybody say Jack, don't you know

CHORUS

Well a hush fell over the pool room

As Jimmy came boppin in offa the street

And when the cuttin' was done the only part that wasn't bloody

Was the soles of the big man's feet

Yeah he was cut in 'bout a hundred places

He was shot in a couple more

And you better believe they sung a different kind of story

When Big Jim hit the floor, uh huh huh, now they say

CHORUS 2:

You don't tug on Superman's cape

You don't spit into the wind

You don't pull the mask of the ol' Lone Ranger

And you don't mess around with Slim

CHORUS 2

You don't pull the mask off the ol Lone Ranger

And you don't mess around with Slim

CHORDS:

C x32010

Csus4 x33010

F xx3211

Bb x13331