Quote #45004
On the seventh hour
On the seventh day
On the seventh month
The seventh doctor say
He was born for good luck
And that you’ll see
I got seven hundred dollars
Don’t you mess with me
On the seventh day
On the seventh month
The seventh doctor say
He was born for good luck
And that you’ll see
I got seven hundred dollars
Don’t you mess with me
Willie Dixon
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Interpretation
The lyric plays on the folkloric and biblical aura of the number seven—often associated with completeness, fate, and luck—to frame the speaker’s identity as charmed and untouchable. By stacking “seventh hour/day/month” and invoking a “seventh doctor,” the song mimics the cadence of a prophecy or diagnosis, as if authority itself has certified the narrator’s good fortune. The boast “I got seven hundred dollars” turns mystical luck into material proof, while “Don’t you mess with me” converts that luck into social power and warning. In blues tradition, such numerology functions as both swagger and self-mythology: a way to narrate survival, status, and threat in a compressed, memorable refrain.
