What Dance Can Do

What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do
Lawd
What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do
Dread
What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do
Lawd
What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do

I'ma tell yuh bout a dance, inna Brooklyn
Getting off the train, up the stairs & ting
Walk five blocks, see the door, bell ring
Get introduced, then we go dancing

Dance with me Ke then mi gon' go pee
When mi come back, ah mon dance with mi Ke
Lawd ah gwad dread, mi couldn't take da feeling
Approach di dutty bwoy & mi kick him pon him shin

Mi seh di bwoy fall down, mi seh di bwoy start limp
Yes mi good, lawd, me feel fantastic
Turn to mi Ke, fi goh tell her something
Before mi get fi talk, she seh mi kick har cousin
What?
Kick har cousin, yes mi kick har cousin
Lawd

What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do
Lawd
What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do
Dread
What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do
Lawd
What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do

It can make yuh get hurt, feel numb, head sick
Make serval trips to the di Doctor's Office
Walk into a bar, mi even drink
Contemplate, mind ah replay it

Inna midnight, wake up, vomit
Keke ah tell mi seh that she couldn't tan it
Lawd
Couldn't tan it, she seh she couldn't tan it
She still feel a way cah mi kick har cousin
Dread!
Kick har cousin, yes, mi seh mi kick har cousin
Mi devn know seh she devn have a cousin

Yes mi raggamuffin nuff
Pon di mic mi nah bluff
Beard not even comb
Dread, it really ruff
Come ah dance nice; shirt neat, pants buck
Da shoes pon mi feet, dem nuh even lace up

Yes, mi flash microphone and mi lyrics well nuff
Raggamuffin youth and you know mi nah bluff
Mi nuh trim hair, dem seh mi look ruff
Da shoes weh mi wear, dem nuh even lace up
Dread

Never lace up, mi shoes never lace up
Ima raggamuffin youth & mi just ah blossom
And the lyrics weh mi chat, dem ah roll off from mi tongue
And lawd I'm twenty five, jah know, mi really young
And when yuh come ah jam dance, jah mon, you cannot sidung

Yuh fi dance with yuh friends
Bubble pon yuh gyal friend
Dance from start dance til dance'es end
And here comes Rasta Rich with the courses again
Lawd
Course again, with da course again
Yuh fi listen Richiepooh wid da lyrics nah end
And here come Richiepooh with the course again
Lawd!

What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do
Lawd
What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do
Dread
What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do
Lawd
What dance can do
I'm telling yuh what dance can do

Ima tell yuh bout a dance, inna Brooklyn
Getting off the train, up the stairs and ting
Walk five blocks, see the door, bell ring
Get introduced, then we go dancing

Dance with me Ke then mi gon' go pee
When mi come back, ah mon dance with mi Ke
Lawd ah gwad dread, mi couldn't take da feeling
Approach di dutty bwoy and mi kick him pon him shin

Mi seh di bwoy fall down, mi seh di bwoy start limp
Yes, mi good, lawd, me feel fantastic
Turn to mi Ke, fi goh tell her something
Before mi get fi talk, she seh mi kick har cousin
Lawd!
Kick har cousin, yes mi kick har cousin
Dread!