Skyscraper - Mighty Sparrow

Trinidad coming like New York, soon

They’re building buildings to touch the moon

Trinidad coming like New York, soon

They’re building buildings to touch the moon

First of all is Salvatori

Take up all the space in the city

Now all the buildings around

Looking just like old shacks in Shanty Town

If you see this big macco building

(Oh Lord!) Well it higher than a mountain

It’s so big and tall

Salvatori make Johnson and them look like nuttin'

Nuttin' at all, at all

All them owners of stores in town

Had a meeting Sunday gone

They say they know the small ones would be pushed around

So they go sell and join to big one

But valuator Mr. Morton

Say Bhadoorsingh and Woolworth ain’t worth nuttin'

So if they sell out and have cash in hand

It ain’t enough to pay for Salvatori foundation

If you see this big macco building

Big and blue and higher than a mountain

It’s so big and tall

Salvatori make Johnson and them look like, oh!

Nuttin' at all, at all

That so!

Well, any time ah have to shop

I now know just where to go

Not me in them stupid little store, ah wouldn’t stop

Ah ain’t care what they have to show

If Stephen selling khaki

And the same khaki selling at Salvatori

Ah passing Stephen straight, and friend, believe me

And pay two shillings more at Salvatori

If you see this big macco building

(Oh Lord!) Well it higher than a mountain

It’s so big and tall

Salvatori make Johnson and them look like nuttin', nuttin'

Nuttin' at all, at all

Well ah take the elevator, from the ground to top

And put on meh spying glass

Just looking around, but then ah had to stop

And duck for the moon to pass

Ah try to look down, but ah check back

From up there people looking like bachack

Motor car and truck looking like toy

Cipriani self looking like a little boy

If you see this big macco building

(Oh Lord!) It higher than a mountain

It’s so big and tall

Salvatori make Johnson and them look like nuttin', nuttin'

Nuttin' at all, at all