You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Jim Croce

Uptown got it's hustlers

The bowery got it's bums

42nd Street got Big Jim Walker

He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun

Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come

But he 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


You don't tug on Superman's cape

You don't spit into the wind

You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger

And you don't mess around with Jim


Well outta south Alabama came a country boy

He say I'm lookin' for a man named Jim

I am a pool-shootin' boy

My name Willie Mccoy

But down home they call me Slim

Yeah I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd 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 everybody say Jack don't you know


And you don't tug on Superman's cape

You don't spit into the wind

You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger

And you don't mess around with Jim


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 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


You don't tug on Superman's cape

You don't spit into the wind

You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger

And you don't mess around with Slim


Yeah, big Jim got his hat

Find out where it's at

And it's not hustlin' people strange to you

Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue


Yeah 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 Slim


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  (and) I Remember Her   A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Sin...   A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business...   A Long Time Ago   Age   Alabama Rain   Alabama Rain [*]   Another Day, Another Town   Bad Bad Leroy Brown   Bad, Bad Leroy Brown   Bad, Bad Leroy Brown [*]   Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown   Ball Of Kerrymuir   Big Fat Woman   Big Wheel   Box #10   Car Wash   Careful Man   Cats In The Cradle   Chain Gang Medley: Chain Gang/He Don't Love You/Se...   Chain Gang Medley: Chain Gang/He Don't Love Y...   Chain Gang Medley: Chain Gang\/He Don't Love\/Sear...   Charlie Green Play That Slide Trombone   Child of Midnight   Child of Midnight [*]   Child of Midnight [#]   Child of Midnight [Jim and Ingrid]   Cigarettes, Whiskey & Wild, Wild Women   Cigarettes, Whiskey & Wild, Wild Women   Cotton Mouth River   Cotton Mouth River [#]   Country Girl   Don't Mess Around With Jim   Dreamin' Again   Dreamin' Again   Five Short Minutes   Greenback Dollar   Gunga Din   Hard Time Losin' Man   Hard Time Losin' Man   Hey Tomorrow   Hey Tomorrow [#][Demo Version]   I Am What I Am   I Am Who I Am   I Got A Name   I Got a Name [*]   I Got a Name [From The Last American Hero]   I Remember Her   I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song   I've Got A Name   I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song   I've Got A Name   It Doesn't Have To Be That Way   It Doesn't Have To Be That Way   Just Another Day   King's Song   King's Song   Lover's Cross   Lover's Cross   Lovers Cross   Maybe Tomorrow   Mississippi Lady   More Than That Tomorrow   More Than That Tomorrow [#]   New York's Not My Home   New York's Not My Home   New Yorku2019s Not My Home   Next Time, This Time   Nobody Loves A Fat Girl   Ol' Man River   Old Man River   One Less Set Of Footsteps   One Less Set of Footsteps [*]   Operator   Operator (that's Not The Way It Feels)   Operator (Thats Not the Way It Feels)   Photographs And Memories   Railroad Song   Railroads And Riverboats   Rapid Roy   Rapid Roy (the Stock Car Boy)   Recently   Roller Derby Queen   Roller Derby Queen [*]   Running Maggie   Salon And Saloon   Speedball Tucker   Speedball Tucker (live)   Speedball Tucker [*]   Spin, Spin, Spin   Steel Rail Blues   Stone Walls   Sun Come Up   The Ball of Kerrymuir   The Hard Way Every Time   The Man That Is Me   The Migrant Worker   The Migrant Worker [#]   The Next Man That I Marry   The Sun Come Up   These Dreams   These Dreams (live) [Live]   These Dreams [*]   This Land Is Your Land   Thursday   Time In A Bottle   Tomorrow's Gonna Be A Brighter Day   Tomorrow's Gonna Be A Brighter Day   Top Hat Bar And Grill   Top Hat Bar And Grille   Vespers   Walkin' Back To Georgia   Walkin' Back To Georgia   Way We Used To Be   Wear Out The Turnpike   What Do People Do   What The Hell   Which Way Are You Goin   Which Way Are You Going   Workin At The Car Wash Blues   Workin' At The Car Wash Blues   Workin' At The Car Wash Blues   You Don't Mess Around With Jim   You Donu2019t Mess Around with Jim

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