Police Get More Pay - Mighty Sparrow

Them policeman mad, mad

Ah say they wild here in Trinidad

Them policeman mad, mad

Well they wild here in Trinidad

The government raise on they salary

Still they unhappy

With this raise people know they get

They don’t want to pay they debts

They used to get a shilling here, collect a shilling there

Now all of that stop

If they only say they broke, people say they making joke

They pay gone up

I hear the whole force in misery

No more loans and credit you see

I hear they planning to lock up Lee for raising they salary

(Anytime you see) they lock up Lee for raising they salary

In the police canteen

They used to walk in

Just full up they bosom

With all kinds of foodstuff, all kind of rum

Since this raise in salary gone around

The canteen close down

So when you check it together and you weigh the score

Well they suffering worse than before

They used to get a shilling here, collect a shilling there

Now all of that stop

If they only say they broke, people say they making joke

They pay gone up

I hear the whole force in misery

No more loans and credit you see

They planning to lock up Lee for raising they salary

(Anytime you see) they lock up Lee for raising they salary

They used to live cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap

And life was so sweet

Riding people taxi — free!

Or just walk in on the movie

You give a dance or a christening

Policeman walk in, is whiskey he drinking

And know when he leaving the christening as man

You got to put something in he hand

Plus they used to get a shilling here, collect a shilling there

Now all of that stop

If they only say they broke, people say they making joke

I hear they pay gone up

So the whole force in misery

No more loans and credit you see

I hear they planning to lock up Lee for raising they salary

(Anytime you see) they lock up Lee for raising they salary

What getting them blue, blue, blue, blue, blue

The couple dollars they get, so few

It can’t even buy bread

And everybody out for they head

Mr. Lee, oh!

Mr. Lee

You better drive carefully

Every traffic policeman got you on his mind

And ah hear Johnson raised the fine

They used to get a shilling here, collect a shilling there

Now all of that stop

If they only say they broke, people say they making joke

Man, I hear they pay gone up

I hear the whole force in misery

No more loans and credit you see

They planning to lock up Lee for raising they salary

(Anytime you see) they lock up Lee for raising they salary