Rent Agent - The Aggrovators

(A who dat a knock so early, sir?

-A me, «Nine-finger» the rentie Idren)

Woy, what a pressure

Landlord a pressure tenants

Woy, what a pressure

Landlord a pressure tenant

Everywhere you can turn in town

You hear people saying house rent too high

Yes everywhere you can turn in town

The poor people crying house rent too high

Your rent one this month for fifty dollars

You live there two months it raise to sixty dollars

If you have any children, you can’t get it

No matter what the price, you ha fe gladly take it

Every three weeks the rent man come

With him bodyguard and him big, long gun

You can’t tell him seh you no have it

Anyway deh you have to try find it

Or else him coming back with the bailiff man

Coming in a van with two police men

And one thing you must understand

If you even get drop him nah get no wrong

Woy, what a pressure

Landlord a pressure tenant

Woy, woy, woy, what a pressure, hey

Landlord, dem a pressure tenants

My landlord is a cruel man

A man that no one can understand

Every time the rent near fe due

That is the time when my landlord screw

And when him collect, him smile again

That’s the only time me and him are friend

But that friendship only lasts for three weeks

'Cause three weeks' time the rent drew again