The sacred heart is bleeding

Go tell the Holy Ghost

That the junkie is still cheating

To get the thing he needs the most Lady Luck has got me covered

Keeping her watchful eyes over me

The lovers are discovered

The charge is first degree Angel, she's a killer

She's just flown in from the coast

Makes the hit, it's a winner

Leaves you dead as the post Then Sally took to playing poker

The joker is her favorite card

And The drunk he can't stay sober

He says it's oh, much too hard, it's much too hard Meantime something seedy

Was happening across the hall

Someone seemed to be groaning

You could hear it through the wall And the cops they came like lightning

The bullets flew astray

And the noise it was frightening

But the crook he got away