Playing Policy Blues

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