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Jethro Tull lyrics : "Cross-Eyed Mary"

Who would be a poor man, a beggarman, a thief
if he had a rich man in his hand.
And 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 grey.
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 stealer
but her favour's good and strong:
She's the Robin Hood of Highgate

helps the poor man get along.

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