Whole Place a Skank

Whole place a skank tonight (skank, skank)
everybody move it right. (move it)
Wine to the left and dip it steady —
whole place a skank, you ready?

Friday night and the speaker box a warm,
auntie in the kitchen frying up a storm.
Selector drop the tune and the whole room lean,
grease on the plate and the speaker clean.
No trouble in here, leave it at the gate,
just the riddim and the people and a heaping plate.
Sweat on the window, bass in the floor,
everybody wine and beg the deejay for more.

Put your hand in the air if you feel the vibe —
nobody sitting down, everybody alive.
Big up the young and the old and the free:
come skank with me, one family.

Whole place a skank tonight, (skank)
everybody moving bright.
Leave the worry at the door —
whole place a skank, gimme more.

Skank, skank. (a skank)
Skank, skank. (a skank)
Skank, skank. (a skank)
Skank, skank. (a skank)
Wine to the left and dip it steady.

Cousin from foreign just fly in today,
kick off the shoes, throw the suitcase away.
The riddim don't care where you come or you go —
rum in a paper cup, lights down low.
Neighbour bang the wall but she smiling wide,
ten minutes later she's a-dancing outside.
One big yard and a one big beat,
from the kitchen to the corner to the concrete street.

Put your hand in the air if you feel the vibe —
nobody sitting down, everybody alive.
Big up the young and the old and the free:
come skank with me, one family.

Whole place a skank tonight, (skank)
everybody moving bright.
Leave the worry at the door —
whole place a skank, gimme more.

Landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom —
ten minutes later he's a-dancing in the room.
Kicked his shoes off by the blown-out bass:
happiest little cramped-up place.

Skank, skank. (a skank)
Skank, skank. (a skank)
Selector pull it back one time, (wheel it up)
everybody find the rhyme.

Whole place a skank tonight, (skank)
everybody moving bright.
Grandma to the baby sway —
skank until the break of day.

Whole place a skank tonight (skank, skank)
everybody move it right. (move it)
Whole place a skank, you ready?