One of the great reggae songs, Tenement Yard introduced us to Jacob Miller with a bit of a doggerel singalong.

Bit of a singalong today, courtesy of Inner Circle from 1975. This was the first song they recorded with their new singer Jacob ‘Killer’ Miller, bemoaning the difficulty of living a quiet life, smoking his herb, without being grassed up by the neighbours.

I was fairly sure this was an Inner Circle song but it seems to be credited to Jacob Miller solo now. Either way, it’s a classic, with an excellent dub. It was featured, along with other classics like The Heptones’ Book Of Rules, in the great reggae film Rockers. 

He wasn’t a killer but he did die, in 1981, in a car crash in Hope Road – the very street where Bob Marley used to live – in Kingston, Jamaica.

All together now:

Too much su-su su-su su-su

Too much watchie what you are