Come on everybody stand up let us move your feet and dance to that beat

Once upon a time it happened in Jamaica 40 years ago

when Carolina was a little girl

Sound systems, dance halls, nutty sounds and lucky girls

Let's boogie to the guns of Al Capone

You will skank around, when you hear this nutty sound

Jamaica brought it to the whole wide world

All this great musicians created this sound

they played it with mood and with swing, they made it their very own thing

Ska music came to live Rocksteady through Jamaican nights

we danced along until the morning light

When Carolina was a little girl you heard it all over shanty town