You Dont Mess Around with Glenn

E (Pulse for 8, then go)Uptown got it's hustlersThe bowery got it's bums42nd Street got Big Jim WalkerHe's a pool-shootin' son of a gun AYeah, he big and dumb as a man can comeBut he stronger than a country hoss B AAnd when the bad folks all get together at night B A EYou know they all call big Jim "Boss", just because And they say

A EYou don't tug on Superman's cape A EYou don't spit into the wind A You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger B EAnd you don't mess around with Jim

BDo-do-do-de-ah-n-dee-dee-deedeedee (Chord for 2-3-4-5-6-7-8)

EWell outta south Alabama came a country boyHe say I'm lookin' for a man named Jim I am a pool-shootin' boyMy name Willie McCoy But down home they call me Slim AYeah I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd Street EHe drivin' a drop top Cadillac BAfter he took all my moneyAnd it may sound funny A EBut I came to get my money backAnd everybody say Jack don't you know

A EAnd you don't tug on Superman's cape A EYou don't spit into the wind AYou don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger B EAnd you don't mess around with Jim

EWell a hush fell over the pool room

Jimmy come boppin' in off the street And when the cuttin' were done

The only part that wasn't bloody EWas the soles of the big man's feet AYeah he were cut in in bout a hundred places EAnd he were shot in a couple more BAnd you better believe

They sung a different kind of story A EWhen big Jim hit the floor now they say

A EYou don't tug on Superman's cape A EYou don't spit into the wind A You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger B EAnd you don't mess around with Slim

E(Spoken) Yeah, big Jim got his hat

Find out where it's at

And it's not hustlin' people strange to you

Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue

A EYeah you don't tug on Superman's cape A EYou don't spit into the wind A You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger B EAnd you don't mess around with Slim