sixes and sevens and nines

Ba -- by, I can't stay, you got to ro-oh-oll me
And call me the tumblin' dice.

Always in a hurry, I never stop to worry,
Don't you see the time flashin' by.
Honey, got no money,
I'm all sixes and sevens and nines.
Say now baby, I'm the rank outsider,
You can be my partner in crime.

But baby, I can't stay,
You got to ro-oh-oll me - and call me the tumblin' --
Roll me, & call me the tum-bl-in' di-ice....

[Nah nah nahnah na na...]

Yesterday I was remembering a lobbyist that I "knew" --
casually,
work-wise --
and that made me recall another lobbyist who was nice, with a gentle, thoughtful face, and had the same hair-cut, I think, for the thirteen years I worked with him....and always laughed if I told him something good...one day in a committee meeting -- probably  State Affairs (either Senate or House) when legislators were taking testimony about casinos and gambling, 

a crowd of us were in standing-room area, to the left of the seats which were filled -- and my low-key, Hair-Cut Friend turned from the testimony-and-questions flow and remarked, either to me, or to any of us around him,

"I'd rather own a casino than gamble in one."

(Sage business advice, I thought.   Will write that down, next to "Buy low sell high."...)

He might have been just making a point -- that casinos are not set up for the customer to WinSomeMoney; they're set up for the House To Win.  But at the time, I took him quite literally -- I assumed that he owned some casinos (casinoes?)....Oh, my my my, I'm the lone crap shooter,
Playin' the field ev'ry night.

But baby, I can't stay.
you got to roll me and call me the tumblin' dice, (Call-me-the-tumblin')
Got to roll me (yayes), Got to roll me, Got to roll me (Oh yeah)
Got to roll me
Got to roll me (yeah)
got to roll me (Keep on rolling)
got to roll me (Keep on rolling)
got to roll me (Keep on rolling)
Got to roll me
My baby, call me the tumblin' dice, yeah
Got to roll me
Baby sweet as sugar (got to roll me)
Yeah, my my my yeah (got to roll me)

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{song lyrics by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
"Tumbling Dice"  for The Rolling Stones'
1972 double album, Exile on Main Street}

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