Well, they playin' bad
They got me feelin' sad
Well, if they're playin' beast
Why they run for police?

Ten criminal attack me outside of me gramma
Wey down Henry Street by H.G.N. Walker
It was about ten in the night on the fifth of October
Hey, they said I pushed a young, young girl from Grenada

The leader of the gang, he was a-hot like a pepper
(Ten to one is murder)
And every man in the gang had a white-handled razor
(Ten to one is murder)
Well, I back-back 'til I nearly fall in the gutter
(Ten to one is murder)
Just imagine my position, not a police in the area
(Ten to one is murder)

Oh, ten to one is murder
(Ten to one is murder)
You should've hear them
Ten to one is murder
(Ten to one is murder)

Well, I start to sweat
Man, I'm soaking wet
Mama, so much stress
That's a night I can't forget
It was ten of them against me with fifty spectator
Ay, and the way they comin' up like they want to devour
But in the heat of the excitement is then I remember
That in my next pants pocket I forget me wedger

I don't know what to do but I just won't surrender
(Ten to one is murder)
They wanna cut me down 'bout the shortest pretender
(Ten to one is murder)
You can imagine how they planning to dig out me liver
(Ten to one is murder)
But as the crowd start to gather, I started to shiver
(Ten to one is murder)

Whoa yo yo, ten to one is murder
(Ten to one is murder)
If you hear them
Ten to one is murder
(Ten to one is murder)
You should've hear them
Ten to one is murder
(Ten to one is murder)
If you hear them
Ten to one is murder
(Ten to one is murder)
In the still of the night
I was really in a fright
Me alone against ten
Ten vicious men

I remember I had a chicken at the ramma
(Ten to one is murder)
Oh, well, I said to myself it was me last supper
(Ten to one is murder)
But I get away and I run 'til I by Johnson Corner
(Ten to one is murder)
Ay, they drop litter in me skin with big stick and boulder
(Ten to one is murder)
But the fella in front was a very good pelter
(Ten to one is murder)
Bottles and stone falling but no place to shelter
(Ten to one is murder)
I hear platow, pow, and the crowd start to scatter
(Ten to one is murder)

If you hear them
Ten to one is murder
(Ten to one is murder)
I hear platow, pow, and the police they cleaned up
(Ten to one is murder)
It was then I remember I had a chicken at the ramma
(Ten to one is murder)
I had to say to myself, boy, that's your last supper
(Ten to one is murder)
Well, the fellow in front was a very good pelter
(Ten to one is murder)
I hear platow, pow, and the crowd start to scatter
(Ten to one is murder)
Everybody say ten to one is murder
(Ten to one is murder)
They say ten to one is murder
(Ten to one is murder)
They say ten to one is murder
(Ten to one is murder)