I'm out to get your greenback dollar I'm out to get your silver change I'm out to get your long black limo You kept me down on my knees too long
Now my daddy before me, he worked like I work He was worked to death forty years or so Now my mama she died from grieving over him How old she was I never did know
I'm out to get your greenback dollar I'm out to get your silver change I'm out to get your long black limo You kept me down on my knees too long
Now the building you own you won at gambling On dice and horses and ticker-tape machines But that's no sign that you are smarter than I am I'm going to show you just what I mean
I'm out to get your easy money I'm out to get my share of your gold I'm out to get your whiskey and women I'm going to get back my life you stole
Now I went to the judge and I talked with the tenants We told him we had no hot water in the sink He spent a half an hour upon his bench there To tell us what a fine reputation our landlord's got
But I'm out to get your long green tender I'm out to get your round town car I'm out to fight and win a good job and wages And a six room twin bed flat with a built in bar
Now I told that judge how you played the horses How you won this apartment building here How you took our money and headed to Florida To lay in the sun with women while we freeze here
So, I'm out to get your excess bacon I'm out to get my cut from you I'm going to walk and talk and tell all my neighbors How they ought to talk right up for their cut too
It won't be with no gun nor gambling wheel sir That I will use to relieve you of your till It will be in a nice friendly way with all my neighbors Smelling and barking brother up and down your hill
And you can't hide along no oceans And you can't hide in no desert for long We're out to get back every penny that you won gambling Because we can't live, landlord, on a race horse song