This is a very simple song, most beginners should be able to play this no problem.

^EUptown 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

Yeah, he ^Abig and dumb as a man can come But he ^Estronger than a country hoss And when the ^Bbad folks all get together at night You know they ^Aall call big Jim ^E"Boss", just because

And they say

You don't ^Atug on Superman's ^Ecape You don't ^Aspit into the ^Ewind You don't ^Apull the mask off the old Lone Ranger And you ^Bdon't mess around with ^EJim

Well outta ^Esouth Alabama came a country boy He say I'm lookin' for a man named Jim

I am a pool-shootin' boy My name Willie McCoy But down home they call me Slim

Yeah I'm ^Alookin' for the king of 42nd Street He drivin' a ^Edrop top Cadillac After he ^Btook all my money

And it may sound funny

But I ^Acame to get my money ^Eback And everybody say Jack don't you know

And you don't ^Atug on Superman's ^Ecape You don't ^Aspit into the ^Ewind You don't ^Apull the mask off the old Lone Ranger And you ^Bdon't mess around with ^EJim

Well a ^Ehush 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

Was the ^Esoles of the big man's feet Yeah he were ^Acut in in bout a hundred places And he were ^Eshot in a couple more And you ^Bbetter believe

They sung a different kind of story

When ^Abig Jim hit the ^Efloor now they say

You don't ^Atug on Superman's ^Ecape You don't ^Aspit into the ^Ewind You don't ^Apull the mask off the old Lone Ranger And you ^Bdon't mess around with ^ESlim

(Spoken) ^EYeah, 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

Yeah you don't ^Atug on Superman's ^Ecape You don't ^Aspit into the ^Ewind You don't ^Apull the mask off the old Lone Ranger And you ^Bdon't mess around with ^ESlim

Jim Croce - You dont mess around