[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