Ain't Nobody Gonna Tackle Ol' Jim Lyrics

Hiram remarried and sent Jim on his way again

Traveling to PA reacquainted with a train again

Son you are an Indian I want you to

Show the other races what an Indian can do

These words rang true, these words were the last from his father

Before he went off to Carlisle to play football for Pop Warner

Two months passed when he found out his pops passed

Contracted gangrene in the American outback

A sign of the times was the fact we weren't even really legal citizens

Original man without a home of his own what is this silliness

Nineteen-o-four they were finally coached by fellow Indians

A nine and two record still fired on some Willy nilly ish

Them Carlisle hill billies ain't want 'em to succeed

At least hundreds of native babies at the school became deceased

Jim arrived at sixteen, five foot five, one-fifteen

His slim frame a candidate to also become sickly

Shipped him off to the outing program too small to play ball

Broke sweats for slave wages from white strangers on they farms

Returned to school at age twenty, built strong and people noticed

High jumped a five-nine bar in a work shirt and overalls

Pop Warner caught wind of it and put Jim on the track team right away

Had his best track star get acquainted with Jim to teach him how to play

That man's name was Albert Exendine, Jim moved on to break his records

His first love was still the gridiron so you know he had to make an entrance

Went to practice to kick some grass but Pop didn't want him to touch the ball

Didn't want his new star track athlete getting injured so he had to make the call

Jim fought it so he gave him the pigskin and told the team to go and show him

Jim juked through the defense twice and said ain't nobody gonna tackle ol' Jim

Warner did not want his track star hurt

He kept after him, Warner said 'well

Gonna use you for tackling practice. Ok, run

Down through these guys. Let 'em tackle

You.' So dad goes down through and

Nobody tackled him, and Warner hollers

At him, 'I told you to let 'em tackle you

Do it again!' So then dad finally said

'Ain't nobody gonna tackle 'ol Jim