| (A who dat a knock so early, sir?
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| -A me, «Nine-finger» the rentie Idren)
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| Woy, what a pressure
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| Landlord a pressure tenants
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| Woy, what a pressure
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| Landlord a pressure tenant
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| Everywhere you can turn in town
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| You hear people saying house rent too high
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| Yes everywhere you can turn in town
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| The poor people crying house rent too high
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| Your rent one this month for fifty dollars
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| You live there two months it raise to sixty dollars
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| If you have any children, you can’t get it
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| No matter what the price, you ha fe gladly take it
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| Every three weeks the rent man come
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| With him bodyguard and him big, long gun
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| You can’t tell him seh you no have it
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| Anyway deh you have to try find it
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| Or else him coming back with the bailiff man
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| Coming in a van with two police men
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| And one thing you must understand
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| If you even get drop him nah get no wrong
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| Woy, what a pressure
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| Landlord a pressure tenant
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| Woy, woy, woy, what a pressure, hey
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| Landlord, dem a pressure tenants
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| My landlord is a cruel man
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| A man that no one can understand
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| Every time the rent near fe due
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| That is the time when my landlord screw
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| And when him collect, him smile again
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| That’s the only time me and him are friend
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| But that friendship only lasts for three weeks
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| 'Cause three weeks' time the rent drew again |