You Don't Mess Around with Jim (Live)

[00:06.13] Uptown got its hustlers
[00:08.92] The Bowery got its bums
[00:11.33] 42nd Street got Big Jim Walker
[00:14.21] He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun
[00:16.64] Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
[00:19.68] But he stronger than a country hoss
[00:22.30] And when the bad folks all get together at night
[00:25.18] You know they all call big Jim "Boss", just because
[00:29.88] And they say
[00:31.05] You don't tug on Superman's cape
[00:33.24] You don't spit into the wind
[00:36.09] You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
[00:39.14] And you don't mess around with Jim
[00:46.41] Well outta south Alabama come a country boy
[00:48.89] He say I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
[00:51.65] I am a pool-shootin' boy
[00:53.02] By name 'a Willie McCoy
[00:54.52] But down home they call me Slim
[00:57.14] Yeah I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd Street
[00:59.38] He drivin' a drop top Cadillac
[01:02.44] Last week he took all my money
[01:04.08] And it may sound funny
[01:05.44] But I come to get my money back
[01:07.94] And everybody say Jack don't you know
[01:10.69] You don't tug on Superman's cape
[01:13.39] You don't spit into the wind
[01:16.35] You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
[01:19.44] And you don't mess around with Jim
[01:26.11] Well a hush fell over the pool room
[01:28.63] Jimmy come boppin' in off the street
[01:31.56] And when the cuttin' was done
[01:33.25] The only part that wasn't bloody
[01:34.55] Was the soles of the big man's feet, ooh
[01:37.30] And he was cut in about a hundred places
[01:39.76] And he were shot in a couple more
[01:42.60] And you better believe
[01:44.19] There come another kind of story
[01:45.46] When big Jim hit the floor, now they say
[01:50.78] You don't tug on Superman's cape
[01:53.37] You don't spit into the wind
[01:56.32] You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
[01:59.22] And you don't mess around with Slim
[02:04.37] Yeah, big Jim got his hat
[02:06.06] Find out where it's at
[02:07.74] And it's not hustlin' people strange to you
[02:10.37] Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue
[02:16.81] Yeah you don't tug on Superman's cape
[02:19.86] You don't spit into the wind
[02:22.58] You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
[02:25.36] And you don't mess around with Slim
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