[Verse 1]

Honesty is the best policy

But they weren't referring to people like me

Honesty is the best policy

But they wasn't referring to people like me

Rich people could say anything

Because they living like queen and king

Whenever your neighbour living in luxury

The first man to tell you to be honest is he

[Chorus]

Honesty is for the rich, they can all live above board

But it's onе virtue us poor people can't afford

Tеmptation always knocking at your door

Where the next meal coming from, you never sure

That is always the case when you're poor

So necessity knows no law

[Verse 2]

It's good to be honest, I wouldn't deny

But through dishonesty plenty people get by

To cheat and to lie is very, very wrong

But that's the way politicians get along

The amount of lie politicians tell

When they dead all of them going straight to hell

Before election they talking honesty

But after election they practising rachifee

[Chorus]

Honesty is for the rich, they can all live above board

But it's one virtue politicians can't afford

Temptation always knocking at their door

Where the next meal coming from, they never sure

That is always the case when you're poor

'Cause necessity knows no law

[Verse 3]

Rich people who don't invest their money

Is crippling the nation's economy

They can assist things like good employment

By simply making a small investment

So whenever a poor man break open a shop

The government should lock a rich man up

Magistrates always penalising we

But these blasted misers create dishonesty

[Chorus]

Honesty is for the rich, they can all live above board

But it's one virtue us poor people can't afford

Temptation always knocking at your door

Where the next meal coming from, you never sure

That is always the case when you're poor

So necessity knows no law

[Verse 4]

All honest people catching hell

While rich dishonest folks doing well

All rich people does be wrong and strong

But when a poor man right, he always wrong

So if a poor man want to find happiness

He got to learn to be dishonest

Lie like hell, do some thiefing too

And when you get rich, nobody honest like you

[Chorus]

Honesty is for the rich, they can all live above board

But it's one virtue us poor people can't afford

Temptation always knocking at your door

Where the next meal coming from, you never sure

That is always the case when you're poor

So necessity knows no law