Poor Is A Crime - Freddie McGregor

To be poor is a crime

Man haffi know dat inna dis ya time

To be poor is a crime, whoa now

Man haffi know dat inna dis ya time

I don’t want to be begging

Jah Jah knows I’m a trying

To make the hardest the living

All of my strength I’m a giving

'Cause to be poor it is a crime, whoa now

Man haffi know dat inna dis ya time

To be poor is a crime, whoa well

Woman haffi know dat inna dis ya time

I’m tired of be pushed around

Won’t Jah help me to get off the ground

They want to see me go down

It’s really hard for some of us to stay around

To be poor is a crime

Man haffi know dat inna dis ya time

To be poor is a crime, whoa well

Woman haffi know dat inna dis ya time, whoa now

The boss always want to be bigger

While the poor man slave and suffer

To see the children crying

It really keeps me sighing

My sistrens I’m not lying

Nuff time man feel like crying

'Cause to be poor is a crime, whoa now

Man haffi know dat inna dis ya time

To be poor is a crime, whoa well

Woman haffi know dat inna dis ya time

Now you may see me the wrong

The way I sing my song, yeah

Tell me how must we untangle

When frustration is our only ankle

To be poor is a crime, whoa now

Man haffi know dat inna dis ya time

To be poor is a crime, whoa well

Woman haffi know dat inna dis ya time

To be poor is a crime

Man haffi know dat inna dis ya time

To be poor, the poor can’t take no more

It’s so hard when you’re poor

Struggling to be free, yeah…