You Don't Mess Around With Jim - Jim Croce
Uptown got it's hustlers
The Bowery got it's bums
And forty-second street got big Jim Walker
He a pool shootin' son of a gun
Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
But he's stronger than a country hoss
And when the bad folks all get together at night
You know they all call big Jim "boss" ... just because ...
And they say ...
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"You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim"
Well outa south Alabama come a country boy
He said, I'm Lookin' for a man named Jim
I am a pool shootin' boy,
My name is Willie McCoy
But down home they call me Slim
Yeah I'm looking for the king of forty-second street
He drivin' a drop top Cadillac
Last week he took all my money,
And it may sound funny
But I come to get my money back'
And ev'rybody say "Jack, don't you know that
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Well 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
Was the soles of the big man's feet
Yeah he were cut in 'bout a hundred places
And he were shot in a couple more
And you better believe
They sung a different kind of story
When big Jim hit the floor ...
Now they say ... (Chorus)
And you don't mess around with Slim"
Yeah, big Jim got his hat
Find out where it's at
And not hustling people strange to you
Even if you do got a two piece custom made pool cue, yea
Chorus
And you don't mess around with Slim"