Key: E
E
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E
E7
E
Uptown got it's hustlers
E7
E
The bowery got it's bums
E7
E
42nd Street got Big Jim Walker
E7
E
He's a pool-shooting son of a gun
A
Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
E
E7
E
But he stronger than a country hoss
B
7 A
And when the bad folks all get together at night
B
7 E
You know they all call big Jim "Boss", just because
E7
And they say
A
A7
E
You don't tug on Superman's cape
A
A7
E
You don't spit into the wind
A
A7
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
B7
A7
E
B
And you don't mess around with Jim
E
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E
Well outta south Alabama came a country boy
E7
E
He say I'm looking for a man named Jim
E7
E
I am a pool-shooting boy
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E
My name Willie McCoy
E7
E
But down home they call me Slim
A
Yeah I'm looking for the king of 42nd Street
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E
He driving a drop top Cadillac
B
7
Last week he took all my money
A
And it may sound funny
B
7 A
E
But I come to get my money back
E7
And everybody say Jack don't you know
A
A7
E
You don't tug on Superman's cape
A
A7
E
You don't spit into the wind
A
A7
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
B7
A7
E
B
And you don't mess around with Jim
E
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E
Well a hush fell over the pool room
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E
Jimmy come bopping in off the street
E7
E
And when the cutting were done
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E
The only part that wasn't bloody
E7
E
Was the soles of the big man's feet
A
Yeah he were cut in bout a hundred places
E
E7
And he were shot in a couple more
B
7
And you better believe
A
B
7
They sung a different kind of story
A
E
E7
When big Jim hit the floor, now they say
A
A7
E
You don't tug on Superman's cape
A
A7
E
You don't spit into the wind
A
A7
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
B
7 A7
E
And you don't mess around with Slim
E
Yeah, big Jim got his hat
Find out where it's at
A
A7
E
You don't tug on Superman's cape
A
A7
E
You don't spit into the wind
A
A7
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
B
7 A7
E
E7
B
7E
And you don't mess around with Slim
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