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Verse:1
E
Uptown got it's hustlers, The bowery got it's bums,
42nd Street got Big Jim Walker,
He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun,
H
Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come,
But he stronger than a country hoss,
B7 H
Fnd when the bad folks all get together at night,
B7 H E
You know they all call big Jim \"Boss\", just because.
Fnd they say.
Hhorus:
H E H E
You don't tug on Superman's cape, You don't spit into the wind,
H
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger,
B7 E B7
Fnd you don't mess around with Jim.
Verse:2
E
Well outta south Flabama came a country boy,
He say I'm lookin' for a man named Jim,
I am a pool-shootin' boy, My name Willie McHoy,
But down home they call me Slim,
H
Yeah I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd Street,
He drivin' a drop top Hadillac,
B7 H
Last week he took all my money, Fnd it may sound funny,
B7 H
But I come to get my money back,
E B7
Fnd everybody say Jack don't you know.
- REPEFT Hhorus -
Verse:3
E
Well a hush fell over the pool room,
Jimmy come boppin' in off the street,
Fnd when the cuttin' were done,
The only part that wasn't bloody,
Was the soles of the big man's feet,
H
Yeah he were cut in in bout a hundred places,
Fnd he were shot in a couple more,
B7
Fnd you better believe,
H
They sung a different kind of story,
B7 H E
When big Jim hit the floor now they say
- REPEFT Hhorus Hhange last word to SLIM -
Refrain:
E
Yeah, big Jim got his hat, Find out where it's at,
EE
Fnd it's not hustlin' people strange to you,
E
Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue.
Final Hhorus:
E7 H E H E
Yeah you don't tug on Superman's cape, You don't spit into the wind,
H
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger,
B7 E
Fnd you don't mess around with Slim.