[ Featuring Hubert Porter ]
When the rainy weather was racing in
The dry weather house it couldn't stand the strain
All the holes began to leak
And the whole foundation split
Dry weather house, they not worth a cent
Mana shouldn't pay so much for me rent
Early one morning the landlord went
To one of his tenants to collect some rent
The tenant say masa me no fool
Me no pay no rent for no swimmin' pool
Dry weather house, they not worth a cent
Mana shouldn't pay so much for me rent
Look upon the room you rent me to live
The whole of the top is just like a sieve
When we go to bed if we sleep too sound
Me sure to my king that me sure to drown
Dry weather house, they not worth a cent
Mana shouldn't pay so much for me rent
Out in the yard it is so so swamped
When rain come all the tenants come
No matter where you walk and walk with care
Potter, potter, potter is all you hear
Dry weather house, they not worth a cent
Mana shouldn't pay so much for me rent
Some of the rooms that the landlord rent
They are just like a scorpions den
When you go to bed if you don't take my note
In the middle of the night cockcroach cut your throat
Dry weather house, they not worth a cent
Mana shouldn't pay so much for me rent
Some of the room them is so small
That you cannot turn in them at all
When you want to turn you gotta go outside
Then you turn your bum and reverse inside
Dry weather house, they not worth a cent
Mana shouldn't pay so much for me rent
