You don't mess around with Jim

[Ralph Kramden]

Uptown got it's hustlers
The bowery got it's bums
42nd Street got Big Jim Walker
He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun

Jim Croce died in a plane crash in 1973.
He sang this pool shooting song 38 years ago.

It's about pool hustler Jim Walker and a boy he hustled named Willie McCoy.
Willie came looking to get the money he lost back from Big Jim... :angry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQrTGE4wwwA

 

[Cuebuddy]

Thanks, I have heard the song many times but dont think I ever saw him sing it.

 

[greyghost]

my second favorite pool song.....most people don't even realize its about pool lol

he died in that plane crash where i went to college, Natchitoches LA



and you don't mess around with Jim,
-Grey Ghost-

 

[mosconiac]

and you don't mess around with Jim,

Unless your name is Slim, of course. :thumbup:

 

[4.0x3.48]

Cool coincidence! I have been listening to a lot of Jim Croce latey! He was a great musician and made some great music! Thanks for posting! This is what real musical talent looks like. The "artists" (I use this word loosely) of today could learn something from musicians like Jim Croce.

 

[Kickin' Chicken]

Real nice!

Thx.

Best,
Brian kc

 

[greyghost]

Unless your name is Slim, of course. :thumbup:

dam right

 

[BWColeman]

Unless your name is Slim, of course. :thumbup:

" I am a Pool shooting boy my name is willie McCoy but down home they call me Slim"