Eric Church - Country

You Don’t Mess Around With Jim (Live At Santander Arena, Reading, PA / May 18, 2017)

2 Plays

Duration: 3:11

Yeah uptown's got its hustlers The bowery got its bums 42nd Street got big Jim walker He's a pool shootin' son of a gun Yeah he's 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" Yeah well down in south Alabama come a country boy I''mma lookin' for a man named Jim Yeah I'm 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 Drivin' a drop top cadillac Last week he took all my money And it may sound funny But I'm to get my money back And everybody say Jack don't you know "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 of 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 was cut in in 'bout a hundred places And he was 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 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

Credits

Writers: Jim Croce