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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. "You Don't Mess
Around with Jim" is a 1972 single by Jim Croce from his album of the
same name. American hard rock band Poison covered this song on the 20th
anniversary remaster of their album, Look What the Cat Dragged In. The
lyrics tell a similar story to that told in Croce's hit single "Bad Bad
Leroy Brown," of a local tough guy who eventually gets his comeuppance,
although in this song, the tough is a pool hustler. The song "You Don't
Mess Around with Jim" has been covered by Poison on Look What the Cat
Dragged In, Ty Herndon on What Mattered Most, Josh Turner on Long Black
Train, and by Donna Fargo on My Second Album. On an episode of the ABC
drama Eli Stone, Victor Garber performed this song in one of Eli's
visions. Weird Al Yankovic's 2009 album Internet Leaks parodied this
song on the track "CNR."
