[ti:You Don't Mess Around With Jim]
[ar:Jim Croce]
[al:Down the Highway]
[00:00.00] 作词 : Croce
[00:06.45]Uptown got it's hustlers
[00:09.43]The bowery got it's bums
[00:12.38]42nd Street got Big Jim Walker
[00:14.48]He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun
[00:18.06]Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
[00:20.81]But he stronger than a country hoss
[00:24.06]And when the bad folks all get together at night
[00:28.57]You know they all call big Jim "Boss", just because
[00:33.54]And they say
[00:34.62]You don't tug on Superman's cape
[00:37.25]You don't spit into the wind
[00:40.02]You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
[00:44.15]And you don't mess around with Jim
[00:51.34]Well outta south Alabama come a country boy
[00:54.52]He say I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
[00:57.15]I am a pool-shootin' boy
[01:01.46]By name 'a Willie McCoy
[01:02.44]But down home they call me Slim
[01:03.58]Yeah I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd Street
[01:06.85]He drivin' a drop top Cadillac
[01:08.60]Last week he took all my money
[01:09.41]And it may sound funny
[01:11.14]But I come to get my money back
[01:14.20]And everybody say Jack don't you know
[01:16.65]You don't tug on Superman's cape
[01:20.35]You don't spit into the wind
[01:23.21]You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
[01:29.53]And you don't mess around with Jim
[01:36.68]Well a hush fell over the pool room
[01:39.42]Jimmy come boppin' in off the street
[01:42.62]And when the cuttin' was done
[01:43.99]The only part that wasn't bloody
[01:44.80]Was the soles of the big man's feet, ooh
[01:48.61]And he was cut in about a hundred places
[01:50.97]And he were shot in a couple more
[01:53.87]And you better believe
[01:55.68]There come another kind of story
[01:56.74]When big Jim hit the floor now they say
[02:00.83]You don't tug on Superman's cape
[02:05.58]You don't spit into the wind
[02:08.34]You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
[02:11.28]And you don't mess around with Slim
[02:17.51]Yeah, big Jim got his hat
[02:18.90]Find out where it's at
[02:21.02]And it's not hustlin' people strange to you
[02:27.58]Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue
[02:29.97]Yeah you don't tug on Superman's cape
[02:30.54]You don't spit into the wind
[02:33.00]You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
[02:35.51]And you don't mess around with Slim
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