Uptown got its hustlers, the Bowery got its bums 42nd Street got Big Jim, a walker, he a pull shootin' son of a gun Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come, but he's stronger than a country horse And when the bad folks all get together at night, you know they all call Big Jim ball Just because And they say you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind You don't pull a mask off that old lone ranger and you don't mess around with Jim I don't do that, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee Well, out of South Alabama come a country boy, he said he's lookin' for a man named Jim I am a pull shootin' boy, my name is Willie McCoy, but down at home they call me Slim Yeah, I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd Street, he drive on 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, don't you know that you don't tug on Superman's cape You don't spit into the wind You don't pull a mask off that old lone ranger and you don't mess around with Jim I don't do that, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee Well, a hussle fell over the pool room, and Jim had gone boppin' in awful streets And when the cuttin' was done, the only part that wasn't bloody was the soles of the big man's feet Yeah, he was cuttin' about a hundred places, and he was shot in a couple more And you better believe I sung a different kind of story when a big Jim hit the floor Yeah, they say you don't tug on Superman's cape You don't spit into the wind You don't pull a mask off that old lone ranger and you don't mess around with Slim Yeah, big Jim got his hat Find out where it's at, it's not hustlin' people strange to you Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made for you Yeah, you don't tug on Superman's cape You don't spit into the wind You don't pull a mask off that old lone ranger and you don't mess around with Slim Yeah, big Jim got his hat Find out where it's at, it's not hustlin' people strange to you Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made for you Yeah, you don't tug on Superman's cape You don't spit into the wind