You Dont Mess Around With Jim

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Uptown got its hustlers  The bowery got its bums
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   42nd Street got Big  Jim Walker
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He's a poolshooting son of a gun     Yeah,
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he big and dumb as a man  can come
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But he 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,
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  just because
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And they say

[Chorus]
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You don't tug on Superman's cape
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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
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Badoom doohdoohdahdah dididi didi dee

[Verse 2]
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Well outta south Alabama come a country boy
He said,
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I'm looking for a man named Jim
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  I am a poolshooting boy,
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my name is Willie McCoy
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But down at home they call me Slim
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  Yeah I'm looking for the king of 42nd  Street
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He driving a drop top Cadillac
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Last week he took  all my money,
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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  don't you know

[Chorus]
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That you don't tug on Superman's cape
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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
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Badoom doohdoohdahdah dididi didi dee

[Verse 3]
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Well, a hush fell over the pool  room
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Jimmy come bopping in off the street
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  And when the cutting was done
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The only part that wasn't bloody
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Was the soles of the big man's feet,
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  ooh
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And he was cut in about a hundred places
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And he was shot in a couple more
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And you better believe
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They sung a different kind of story
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When big Jim hit the floor,  oh oh oh oh,
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  they say  You don't tug on Superman's cape

[Chorus]
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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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Badoom doohdoohdahdah dididi didi

[Bridge]
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 Yeah, big Jim got his hat
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And it's not hustling people strange to you
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Even if you do got a twopiece custommade pool cue
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  You don't tug on Superman's cape

[Chorus]
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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 Hum, hum, hum,
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hum,

[Outro]
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[Fade Out]
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