Sentient Cement Coverpile - Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim

You Don't Mess Around With Jim - Jim Croce

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Uptown got it's hustlers . . the bowery got it's bums
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42nd street got big Jim Walker he's a pool-shooting son of a gun

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Yeah he big and dumb as a man can come but he's
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Stronger than a country hoss
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And when the bad folks all get together at night
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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
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You don't pull . the mask off that old Lone Ranger
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And you don't mess around with Jim
Ba-doo-tn-doo dotta dee-dee-dn dee dee dee }

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Well outta south Alabama came a country boy
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He say I'm looking for a man named Jim . .
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I am a pool-shooting boy my name id Willie McCoy
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But down home they call me Slim

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Yeah I'm looking for the king of 42nd street he driving a
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Drop top Cadillac
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Last week he took all my money and it may sound funny
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But I come to get my money back
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And everybody say jack ooo don't you know

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Well a hush fell over the pool room
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Til' Jimmy come bopping in off the street
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And when the cutting were done the only part that wasn't bloody
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Was the soles of the big man's feet

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Yeah he were cut in bout a hundred places
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And he were shot in a couple more
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And you better believe they sung a different kind of story
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When big Jim hit the floor . oh oh-oh-oh . now they say

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You don't tug on Superman's cape . . you don't spit into the wind
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You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
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And you don't mess around with Slim
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Yeah big Jim got his hat .
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Find out where it's at
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And it's not hustling people strange to you
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Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue . . yeah

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Written by Jim Croce.

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