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 it clean   She dines in Hampstead village, an 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   A poor man's rich girl and she'll do it for a song   A rich man's stealer but her favour's good and strong   She's the Robin Hood of Highgate, let the poor man get along      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 goes jumping in again   She signs no contracts but she always plays it clean   She dines in Hampstead village, an expense accounted gruel   And the jack knife barber drops her off at school      Cross-eyed Mary, oh Mary, oh cross-eyed mary