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You Don't Mess Around with Jim
You Don't Mess Around with Jim is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 1972.
History and release.
The album was recorded over a three to four week period for approximately $18,000, with most funding coming from the PolyGram Group in Baarn, the Netherlands on the basis of hearing an 8-song demo tape assembled by production team Cashman & West. The deal with PolyGram was made after team attorney Phil Kurnit approached a contact within the
don't pull the mask off that ol' Lone Ranger/And you don't mess around with Jim." However, after the song ends with Jim being thoroughly thrashed by his victim ("he'd been cut 'n 'bout a hundred places/ and he'd been shot in a couple more"), the chorus now sings about how "You don't mess around with Slim."
Covers.
The song "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" has been covered by Ty Herndon on "What Mattered