You Don't Mess Around With Jim

[00:06.58] Uptown got it's hustlers
[00:09.03] The bowery got it's bums
[00:11.62] 42nd street got big Jim Walker
[00:14.43] He's a pool shootin' son of a gun
[00:17.38] Yeah, he's big and dumb as a man can come
[00:20.33] But he's stronger than a country hoss
[00:23.10] And when the bad folks all get together at night
[00:26.52] You know they all call big Jim boss, just because
[00:31.03] And they say
[00:32.38] You don't tug on Superman's cape
[00:34.87] You don't spit into the wind
[00:37.65] You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
[00:41.09] And you don't mess around with Jim
[00:45.04]
[00:47.33] Well, outta south Alabama came a country boy
[00:51.47] He said I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
[00:54.46] I am a pool shootin' boy
[00:55.85] My name's Willie McCoy
[00:57.13] But down home, they call me Slim
[00:59.75] Yeah, I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd street
[01:02.64] He drivin' a drop top cadillac
[01:05.90] Last week, he took all my money
[01:07.66] And it may sound funny
[01:09.17] But I come to get my money back
[01:11.91] And everybody say, Jack uh, don't you know
[01:14.98] And you don't tug on Superman's cape
[01:17.95] You don't spit into the wind
[01:20.91] You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
[01:23.93] And you don't mess around with Jim
[01:29.51] Well, a hush fell over the pool room
[01:33.07] Jimmy come boppin' in off the street
[01:37.29] And when the cuttin' were done
[01:38.39] The only part that wasn't bloody
[01:39.99] Was the soles of the big man's feet
[01:42.92] Yeah, he was cut in in 'bout a hundred places
[01:45.33] And he was shot in a couple more
[01:48.28] And you better believe
[01:50.15] They sung a different kind of story
[01:51.44] When big Jim hit the floor
[01:54.30] Now they say
[01:57.49] You don't tug on Superman's cape
[02:00.52] You don't spit into the wind
[02:03.38] You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
[02:06.45] And you don't mess around with Slim
[02:12.02] Yeah, big Jim got his hat
[02:13.61] Find out where it's at
[02:14.93] And it's not hustlin' people strange to you
[02:16.50] Even if you do got a two-piece custom made pool cue
[02:19.97] Yeah, you don't tug on Superman's cape
[02:24.94]
[02:31.16] You don't spit into the wind
[02:31.84] You don't pull the mask off the old lone ranger
[02:32.51] And you don't mess around with Slim
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