You don't gotta mess with Jimmy Brown
He’s a little black man in a big white town
His daddy marched with Dr. King
Your daddy never done a god-darn thing
Except kick you and your brothers around
You don't gotta mess with Jimmy Brown

Jimmy Brown’s been working on your cars
While you’ve been wasting your life in bars
He learned a trade so when it went down
Nobody’d put a label on Jimmy Brown
But he already got one, how ugly it sounds
You don't gotta mess with Jimmy Brown

There’s a lot of people in this city
Who’d never think about messin’ with Jimmy
But when I see a rebel flag roll by
I want see a redneck with two black eyes
But Jimmy says to forget that clown
You don't gotta pick on Jimmy Brown