Mr. Robinson & Lock Joint - Mighty Sparrow

Port of Spain got sewerage scheme

Well it’s now here clean

Port of Spain got sewerage scheme

Well it’s now here clean

Lock Joint are picking up all the waste

From your place and that’s the case

I think it’s a job of class

The only dirty place now is the La Basse

Let me tell you:

I believe in sanitation (it is a good thing)

But Mr Robinson and Lock Joint (pulling and tugging)

You see, you got to buy food, you got to eat good

Before Lock Joint get something

But the taxman so fierce, th food getting scarce

Them pip go live on wind

The big, big pipes that does carry plenty load

Down Mucurapo road

Well, the only impression that I got

St. James people does eat a lot

Diego Martin ain’t making fun

With some good size one, just like in town

But Belmont and Laventille

Have the smallest switch pipe I ever see

Whey you talking?

The people they got in Belmont (also Laventille)

Can’t supply Lock Joint with nothing (in a quantity)

You see, they got to buy food, they got to eat good

Before Lock Joint get something

But the taxman so fierce, the food getting scarce

Them pipe going to live on wind

All through the city is big hole

Motor car lost control

Man, you bumping up like your riding on a camel

Dust block up your nostril

In New York you know about instant coffee

Instant tea for when you’re in a hurry

But in town here the case is blood

Every instant you inhale it’s instant mud

Have you ever seen a cowboy (lassoing cattle)

Kerchief round he nose through the dust (that was strong people)

If you ain’t sneezing, it’s then you stifling

You fighting to stay healthy

Lock Joint is good for us but please keep down the dust

Them pipes going to stay empty

Dungaree and khaki is the thing

That is all people wearing

Executives and men who out on strike

Toute moune dress alike

When the wind blow for miles around

All through town, every building brown

You working hard to get it complete

But to know if it working we got to eat

Whey you talking?

I believe in sanitation (it is a good thing)

Mr Robinson and Lock Joint (pulling and tugging)

You got to buy food, you got to eat good

Before Lock Joint get something

But the taxman so fierce, the food getting scarce

Them pipe going to live on wind