You Don't Mess Around With Jim - Jim Croce.mp3

You Don't Mess Around With Jim - Jim Croce.mp3
[00:06.197]Uptown got it'...
[00:06.197]Uptown got it's hustlers
[00:08.470]The bowery got it's bums
[00:11.196]42nd street got Big Jim Walker
[00:14.542]He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun
[00:16.965]Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
[00:20.310]But he's stronger than a country horse
[00:22.851]And when the bad folks all get together at night
[00:26.343]You know they all call Big Jim boss
[00:28.651]Just because
[00:30.260]And they say
[00:31.800]"You don't tug on Superman's cape
[00:34.719]You don't spit into the wind
[00:37.483]You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
[00:41.186]And you don't mess around with Jim"
[00:47.347]Well, outta South Alabama came a country boy
[00:50.784]He said, "I'm lookin' for a man named Jim"
[00:53.460]I am a pool-shootin' boy, my name Willie McCoy
[00:56.974]But down home they call me, 'Slim'"
[00:59.582]Yeah, I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd street
[01:02.545]He drivin' a drop top Cadillac
[01:04.772]Last week he took all my money
[01:07.380]And it may sound funny
[01:08.575]But I've come to get my money back
[01:11.404]And everybody say, "Jack, don't you know?
[01:14.183]And you don't tug on Superman's cape
[01:17.440]You don't spit into the wind
[01:19.704]You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
[01:23.362]And you don't mess around with Jim"
[01:30.779]Well, a hush fell over the pool room
[01:33.405]Jimmy come boppin' in off the street
[01:35.937]And when the cuttin' were done
[01:37.822]The only part that wasn't bloody
[01:39.490]Was the soles of the big man's feet
[01:41.687]Yeah, he were cut in in 'bout a hundred places
[01:44.798]And he were shot in a couple more
[01:47.497]And you better believe
[01:49.329]They sung a different kind of story
[01:51.087]When big Jim hit the floor
[01:54.403]Now they say
[01:56.787]"You don't tug on Superman's cape
[01:59.164]You don't spit into the wind
[02:01.924]You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
[02:05.702]And you don't mess around with Slim"
[02:09.352]Yeah, Big Jim got his hat
[02:12.173]Find out where it's at
[02:14.013]And it's not hustlin' people strange to you
[02:16.125]Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue
[02:19.318]Yeah, you don't tug on Superman's cape
[02:23.824]You don't spit into the wind
[02:26.542]You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
[02:29.987]And you don't mess around with Slim
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