Cross-Eyed Mary Lyrics

 Who would be a poor man
 a beggerman, a thief
 if he had a rich man in his hand.
 Who would steal the candy
 from a laughing baby's mouth
 if he could take it from the money man.
 Cross-eyed Mary
 goes jumping in again.
 She signs no contract
 but she always plays the game.
 Dines in Hampstead village
 on expense accounted gruel,
 and the jack knife barber
 drops her off at school.
 Laughing in the playground
 gets no kicks from little boys:
 would rather make it with a letching gray.
 Or maybe her attention
 is drawn by Aqualung,
 who watches through the railings as they play.
 Cross-eyed Mary
 finds it hard to get along.
 She's a poor man's rich girl
 and she'll do it for a song.
 She's a rich man's stealer
 but her favour's good and strong:
 She's the Robin Hood of Highgate
 helps the poor man get along.