Chords for You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Tempo:
88.575 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
B
F#
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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You know, growing and spending a lot of time out in the streets, I really get to pick up a lot of the street talking all the time.
That's the way we used to talk, you know.
People would come up to you and say,
If you make any kind of trouble, Jack, I'm going to cut you four kinds of hair.
You know, I'm going to cut you [F] long, deep, wide, and often.
And there's going to be lots of sad singing and slow walking around [F#] your house.
That's when we were all wearing those pony-toed shoes.
We used to call them fence climbers.
You know, back when South Philadelphia was [G#] the cultural center of the [E] universe.
[E]
[N] What I've learned since then to keep my mouth closed in a lot of these situations and always sit near the door.
It's a little pearl of wisdom I've learned at the expense of several bumps and bruises, funny eyebrow here and there, and a couple of thorns in my nose.
[B]
Uptown got it tough, plus.
Lowry got [F#] it strong.
Forty seconds he got two Jim walkers and two shooting son of a [A] guns.
And you big and dumb as a man can come, but stronger than a country hoss.
And when the bad folks all get together at night, [Bm] they're all called big [A] Jim balls, just [E] because.
You don't go to the
[A] [E] wind, get off [F#] the mask of a whole [Bm] range and you don't mess [E] around with Jim.
[B]
[E] Well, I'm South Alabama, a country boy.
You [B] said I'm looking for a man named Jim.
I am.
But my name is Willie McCarty.
But now they call me.
[Am] I'm looking for the king of forty seconds.
He got a [D] drop top [Bm] Cadillac.
Last week, he took all my [A] money and it may sound funny, but I've [B] come to get my [B] money back.
And everybody see Jack.
[A] Don't go to the man.
He don't see [E] it.
And when [A] you don't pull mask off a whole long [G] range and you don't mess [E] around with Jim.
Well, [B]
[E] I spent over the food.
Give me a gun by putting in novel street.
And when the cutting was done, the only part that wasn't bloody was the souls of the big man's feet.
[A] They were cutting about a hundred places and he was shot in a couple more.
[Bm] And you better believe it's on the story when the big man.
Oh, [E] oh, oh, oh, oh, [G#] oh, oh.
Oh, [A]
well, [A] get out, pull [D] the mask of a whole long range and you don't mess [E] around with.
[A] [Em] Yeah, big Jim got his hat.
Find [E] out where is that not a hustling people strain [F#] you.
You do got to be. [B] Just me.
Oh, you
[G] [A] don't go to the man.
He don't see [F#] it.
And when you get out, pull [D] mask of a whole long range and [B] you don't mess [E] around with.
[B]
[D] [Em] [E]
[F#] [N]
That's the way we used to talk, you know.
People would come up to you and say,
If you make any kind of trouble, Jack, I'm going to cut you four kinds of hair.
You know, I'm going to cut you [F] long, deep, wide, and often.
And there's going to be lots of sad singing and slow walking around [F#] your house.
That's when we were all wearing those pony-toed shoes.
We used to call them fence climbers.
You know, back when South Philadelphia was [G#] the cultural center of the [E] universe.
[E]
[N] What I've learned since then to keep my mouth closed in a lot of these situations and always sit near the door.
It's a little pearl of wisdom I've learned at the expense of several bumps and bruises, funny eyebrow here and there, and a couple of thorns in my nose.
[B]
Uptown got it tough, plus.
Lowry got [F#] it strong.
Forty seconds he got two Jim walkers and two shooting son of a [A] guns.
And you big and dumb as a man can come, but stronger than a country hoss.
And when the bad folks all get together at night, [Bm] they're all called big [A] Jim balls, just [E] because.
You don't go to the
[A] [E] wind, get off [F#] the mask of a whole [Bm] range and you don't mess [E] around with Jim.
[B]
[E] Well, I'm South Alabama, a country boy.
You [B] said I'm looking for a man named Jim.
I am.
But my name is Willie McCarty.
But now they call me.
[Am] I'm looking for the king of forty seconds.
He got a [D] drop top [Bm] Cadillac.
Last week, he took all my [A] money and it may sound funny, but I've [B] come to get my [B] money back.
And everybody see Jack.
[A] Don't go to the man.
He don't see [E] it.
And when [A] you don't pull mask off a whole long [G] range and you don't mess [E] around with Jim.
Well, [B]
[E] I spent over the food.
Give me a gun by putting in novel street.
And when the cutting was done, the only part that wasn't bloody was the souls of the big man's feet.
[A] They were cutting about a hundred places and he was shot in a couple more.
[Bm] And you better believe it's on the story when the big man.
Oh, [E] oh, oh, oh, oh, [G#] oh, oh.
Oh, [A]
well, [A] get out, pull [D] the mask of a whole long range and you don't mess [E] around with.
[A] [Em] Yeah, big Jim got his hat.
Find [E] out where is that not a hustling people strain [F#] you.
You do got to be. [B] Just me.
Oh, you
[G] [A] don't go to the man.
He don't see [F#] it.
And when you get out, pull [D] mask of a whole long range and [B] you don't mess [E] around with.
[B]
[D] [Em] [E]
[F#] [N]
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ You know, growing and spending a lot of time out in the streets, I really get to pick up a lot of the street talking all the time.
That's the way we used to talk, you know.
People would come up to you and say,
If you make any kind of trouble, Jack, I'm going to cut you four kinds of hair.
You know, I'm going to cut you [F] long, deep, wide, and often.
And there's going to be lots of sad singing and slow walking around [F#] your house.
That's when we were all wearing those pony-toed shoes.
We used to call them fence climbers.
You know, back when South Philadelphia was [G#] the cultural center of the [E] universe.
_ [E] _ _
[N] What I've learned since then to keep my mouth closed in a lot of these situations and always sit near the door.
_ It's a little pearl of wisdom I've learned at the expense of several bumps and bruises, funny eyebrow here and there, and a couple of thorns in my nose.
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Uptown got it tough, plus.
Lowry got [F#] it strong.
Forty seconds he got two Jim walkers and two shooting son of a [A] guns.
And you big and dumb as a man can come, but stronger than a country hoss.
And when the bad folks all get together at night, [Bm] they're all called big [A] Jim balls, just [E] because.
_ You don't go to the _
[A] _ _ [E] wind, get off [F#] the mask of a whole [Bm] range and you don't mess [E] around with Jim.
_ _ [B] _ _
_ [E] Well, I'm South Alabama, a country boy.
You [B] said I'm looking for a man named Jim.
I am.
But my name is Willie McCarty.
But now they call me.
[Am] I'm looking for the king of forty seconds.
He got a [D] drop top [Bm] Cadillac.
Last week, he took all my [A] money and it may sound funny, but I've [B] come to get my [B] money back.
And everybody see Jack.
_ [A] Don't go to the man.
He don't see [E] it.
And when [A] you don't pull mask off a whole long [G] range and you don't mess [E] around with Jim.
Well, [B] _ _
_ [E] I spent over the food.
Give me a gun by putting in novel street.
And when the cutting was done, the only part that wasn't bloody was the souls of the big man's feet.
[A] They were cutting about a hundred places and he was shot in a couple more.
[Bm] And you better believe it's on the story when the big man.
Oh, [E] oh, oh, oh, oh, [G#] oh, oh.
Oh, [A] _
well, _ [A] _ get out, pull [D] the mask of a whole long range and you don't mess [E] around with.
_ [A] _ _ [Em] Yeah, big Jim got his hat.
Find [E] out where is that not a hustling people strain [F#] you.
You do got to be. [B] Just me.
Oh, you _
[G] _ [A] don't go to the man.
He don't see [F#] it.
And when you get out, pull [D] mask of a whole long range and [B] you don't mess [E] around with.
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ You know, growing and spending a lot of time out in the streets, I really get to pick up a lot of the street talking all the time.
That's the way we used to talk, you know.
People would come up to you and say,
If you make any kind of trouble, Jack, I'm going to cut you four kinds of hair.
You know, I'm going to cut you [F] long, deep, wide, and often.
And there's going to be lots of sad singing and slow walking around [F#] your house.
That's when we were all wearing those pony-toed shoes.
We used to call them fence climbers.
You know, back when South Philadelphia was [G#] the cultural center of the [E] universe.
_ [E] _ _
[N] What I've learned since then to keep my mouth closed in a lot of these situations and always sit near the door.
_ It's a little pearl of wisdom I've learned at the expense of several bumps and bruises, funny eyebrow here and there, and a couple of thorns in my nose.
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Uptown got it tough, plus.
Lowry got [F#] it strong.
Forty seconds he got two Jim walkers and two shooting son of a [A] guns.
And you big and dumb as a man can come, but stronger than a country hoss.
And when the bad folks all get together at night, [Bm] they're all called big [A] Jim balls, just [E] because.
_ You don't go to the _
[A] _ _ [E] wind, get off [F#] the mask of a whole [Bm] range and you don't mess [E] around with Jim.
_ _ [B] _ _
_ [E] Well, I'm South Alabama, a country boy.
You [B] said I'm looking for a man named Jim.
I am.
But my name is Willie McCarty.
But now they call me.
[Am] I'm looking for the king of forty seconds.
He got a [D] drop top [Bm] Cadillac.
Last week, he took all my [A] money and it may sound funny, but I've [B] come to get my [B] money back.
And everybody see Jack.
_ [A] Don't go to the man.
He don't see [E] it.
And when [A] you don't pull mask off a whole long [G] range and you don't mess [E] around with Jim.
Well, [B] _ _
_ [E] I spent over the food.
Give me a gun by putting in novel street.
And when the cutting was done, the only part that wasn't bloody was the souls of the big man's feet.
[A] They were cutting about a hundred places and he was shot in a couple more.
[Bm] And you better believe it's on the story when the big man.
Oh, [E] oh, oh, oh, oh, [G#] oh, oh.
Oh, [A] _
well, _ [A] _ get out, pull [D] the mask of a whole long range and you don't mess [E] around with.
_ [A] _ _ [Em] Yeah, big Jim got his hat.
Find [E] out where is that not a hustling people strain [F#] you.
You do got to be. [B] Just me.
Oh, you _
[G] _ [A] don't go to the man.
He don't see [F#] it.
And when you get out, pull [D] mask of a whole long range and [B] you don't mess [E] around with.
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _