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Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, 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. 
She 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's stealer but her favour's good and strong: 
she's the Robin Hood of Highgate-helps the poor man get along.