Numbers numbers : about to drive me wild

Thinking about the money : that I should have had



I dreamed last night : the woman I love was dead

If I had played the dead row : I would come out ahead



I act like a fool : and played on three six nine

Lost my money : and that gal of mine



I played on clearing house : couldn't make a grade

Lord think of the money : that I should have made



I begged my baby : let me in her door

Wanted to put my twenty‑five fifty seventy‑five : in her seven seventeen twenty‑four



I want fifteen fifty : and see if it won

I'm going to keep playing policy : till some good luck comes