Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim (Live) [remastered 16:9]

Αudio-visually remastered (improved) widescreen [16:9] version of this live performance by Jim Croce and Maury Muehleisen.

You Don't Mess Around With Jim

Lyrics/Music: Jim Croce

Uptown got it's hustlers, Bowery got it's bums
Forty-second Street got big Jim a-Walker
He a pool-shootin' son of a gun
Yeah, he big 'n' dumb as a man can come
But he stronger than the country ho(r)ss(e)
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 ol' Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim"
Ba-doom dooh-dah-dah deem di-di di-di dee

Well, outta South Alabama come a country boy
He said: "I'm lookin' for a man named 'Jim'
I am a pool-shootin' boy, my name Willie McCoy
But down a-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, ooh, don't you know
That you don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that ol' Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim"
Ba-doom dooh-dah-dah deem di-di di-di dee

Well, a hush fell over the pool-room
'm 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 was shot in a couple more
And you better believe
They sang a different kind-a story
When a-big Jim hit the floor... hmm-huh...

Now they're sayin':
"You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that ol' Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Slim"
Mmm...

Yeah, big Jim got his hat
Find out where's at
And it's not hustlin' people strange to you
Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue

You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that ol' Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Slim
Mmm, mmm
Mmm...

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• Croce
• You
• Don't
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• Around
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• widescreen
• 16:9
• Maury
• Muehleisen
• guitar
• lyrics
• re-mastered
• remastered

[delly659]

what happen to songs that tell storys?

[james48906]

15 fags looking for the dr. dre channel

[huthicle]

damn straight@james48906

[mybluemars]

Jim's Beautiful

[Lpitt56]

@getgoodusa. I hope you did not misunderstand my post. I agree with you 100%, and Jim had more talent and coolnest in one of his fingernail clipping than the pretty boys today.

[heyitsmejason1]

this is talent beyond talent

[eliz547]

@Stentor7 I never cared what he looked like, he just set my soul on fire with his music. I can listen to him all day and then still hit replay. He was such a GREAT.

[JohnnyCxviii]

Gorgeous lyrics and a great tune. Jim was a master storyteller with an unforgettable voice. Jim and Maury made it sound like a whole band was playing.

[WeezyOnDatScrew]

love the leads in this version



[markymark400]

damm he was so good what a shame he was taken that young

[getgoodusa]

@getgoodusa woops! i meant to reply to baginamomolog!

[getgoodusa]

@Lpitt56 that's the attitude that has ruined the music industry. First thing execs looks for are good looks.  Sometimes, rarely now, people are just so damn good that their music goes right to the top.