You Don't Mess Around With Jim-Ty Herndon

[ti:You Don't Mess Around With Jim] [ar:Ty Herndon] [al:What Mattered Most] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]You Don't Mess Around With Jim - Ty Herndon [00:07.11]Uptown got its hustlers [00:10.03]The Bow'ry got its bums [00:13.13]The 42nd Street got Big Jim Walker [00:16.12]He's a pool shootin' son of a gun [00:18.84]Yeah he's big and dumb as a man can come [00:21.95]But he's stronger than a country hoss [00:24.91]When the bad folks all get together at night [00:28.04]You know they all call Big Jim 'Boss' just because [00:32.55] [00:33.48]And they say you don't tug on Superman's cape [00:37.25]You don't spit into the wind [00:40.26]You don't pull the mask off the old lone ranger [00:43.47]And you don't mess around with Jim [00:46.92] [00:50.97]Well out of South Alabama came a country boy [00:53.66]Said he was looking for a man named Jim [00:57.08]"Hey I'm a pool shootin' boy my name is Willie McCoy [00:59.74]At home they just call me Slim" [01:03.19]"Hey I'm lookin' for the king of Forty Second Street [01:06.00]Drivin' a drop top Cadillac [01:08.88]Last week he took all my money [01:10.95]And it may sound funny [01:12.58]But I've come to get my money back" [01:15.08]And everybody say "Jack don't you know [01:18.37]You don't tug on Superman's cape [01:21.48]You don't spit into the wind [01:24.60]You don't pull the mask off the old lone ranger [01:27.75]And you don't mess around with Jim" [01:31.42] [01:49.10]Well a hush fell over the room [01:51.74]Jimmy came boppin' in off the street [01:55.06]And when the cuttin' was done [01:56.73]The only part that wasn't bloody [01:58.42]Was the soles of the big man's feet [02:01.25]Well he was cut in 'bout a hundred places [02:03.77]And he was shot in a couple more [02:07.46]And you better believe [02:08.87]They sang a diff'rent kind of story [02:10.67]When Big Jim hit the floor [02:13.16]Oh oh yeah don't you know [02:16.41]You don't tug on Superman's cape [02:19.52]You don't spit into the wind [02:22.60]You don't pull the mask off the old lone ranger [02:25.84]And you don't mess around with Slim [02:28.10]Don't you know [02:28.87]You don't tug on Superman's cape [02:31.72]You don't spit into the wind [02:34.77]You don't pull the mask off the old lone ranger [02:37.93]And you don't mess around with slim [02:41.76] [02:50.74]Yeah Big Jim found out where it's at [02:53.83] [02:55.18]Yeah he's hustling people strange to you [02:59.02]Even if you do got a two-piece custom made pool cue