Intro
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[Chorus]
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Skankin', groovin', hallelujah
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Skankin', groovin, help me Jah Jah
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yeah Skankin', groovin', under pressure
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yeah Skankin', groovin'
[Verse 1]
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Under the pressures of a life and it tough
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Nuh stay down mama, time fi get up
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Nuh bother with the downful style, strictly up full vibes and pick it up
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When the bills dem, the rent and the mortgage due yeah weh' mi chalice?
F#m F#m C#m B
When your best friends are gone and it's only you yeah light up a spliff turn up the music
[Refrain]
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Skankin' sweet,
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everybody wanna feel irie
B F#m
Forget your troubles and rock with me
F#m C#m B
You nuh feel how reggae music sweet, yeah-e-yeah
F#m
Skankin' sweet
F#m C#m
Everybody wanna feel irie
B F#m
Forget your troubles and rock with me
F#m C#m B
You nuh feel how reggae music sweet, yeah-e-yeah
[Verse 2]
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Skankin' sweet for every pain there's a melody, yeah, for every trouble there's a harmony
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That brings everything together so make we sing together
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And who say life nuh hard? And every man got their struggle
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I begging you help me Lord, let me overcome my troubles
[Refrain]
F#m
Skankin' sweet,
F#m C#m
everybody wanna feel irie
B F#m
Forget your troubles and rock with me
F#m C#m B
You nuh feel how reggae music sweet, yeah-e-yeah
F#m
Skankin' sweet
F#m C#m
Everybody wanna feel irie
B F#m
Forget your troubles and rock with me
F#m C#m B
You nuh feel how reggae music sweet, yeah-e-yeah
[Bridge]
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Skankin' sweet, we skankin' til ah morning come
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(skankin' til ah morning) Until the day when my troubles are gone (troubles are gone)
G#m G#m F#m F#m
Hallelujah, we're groovin' inna Jah Jah name (groovin' inna Jah Jah name)
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We're groovin' all my troubles away
[Refrain]
F#m
Skankin' sweet,
F#m C#m
everybody wanna feel irie
B F#m
Forget your troubles and rock with me
F#m C#m B
You nuh feel how reggae music sweet, yeah-e-yeah
F#m
Skankin' sweet
F#m C#m
Everybody wanna feel irie
B F#m
Forget your troubles and rock with me
F#m C#m B
You nuh feel how reggae music sweet, yeah-e-yeah
[Refrain]
F#m
Skankin' sweet,
F#m C#m
everybody wanna feel irie
B F#m
Forget your troubles and rock with me
F#m C#m B
You nuh feel how reggae music sweet, yeah-e-yeah
F#m
Skankin' sweet
F#m C#m
Everybody wanna feel irie
B F#m
Forget your troubles and rock with me
F#m C#m B
You nuh feel how reggae music sweet, yeah-e-yeah
[Outro]
F#m F#m C#m B
I'm gonna be skankin' I wanna be skankin'
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I'm gonna be skankin' I wanna be skankin' woah
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woah
F#m F#m C#m B
woah
N.C.
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