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