‘Warm Jamaican Christmas’ a really chill song

'Warm Jamaican Christmas', a collab featuring Wayne Wayne Wonder and Baby Cham, is a really chill song. It paints the picture of Jamaica as the place to be, not just at Christmas, but all year round. The lyrics speak to the warmth of the season, a blazing peace fire, enough love to go around, giving thanks for life and, of course, lots of sweet reggae music.

Warm Jamaican Christmas taps right into the heart of things Jamaican - sea, sand, sun, sensimilla and sharing.

" No have no bag a money or no new clothes fi wear/But if you hungry and me have a 10 dollar a it we share."

Released in December 2007, it is one of the songs from the album titled T he Christmas Album, produced by ace dancehall producer Dave Kelly.

Wayne Wonder told THE STAR that when Kelly called him for the project, he decided to do his thing "a bit different" from everybody.

"I listened to a couple of the other songs and realised that some persons were singing about the traditional Christmas with snow and those things that we don't have here in Jamaica. So I decided to write a song that represented Jamaica, and when Cham come in with his part, it was just right," Wayne said.

What they delivered was a Warm Jamaican Christmas that rocks with that signature Dave Kelly sound and feel, and an unforgettable and catchy hook, intertwined with energetic singer and deejay combination of Wayne Wonder and Cham that has all the makings of a classic Christmas tune.

Here are the lyrics:

I wish for all mankind

A warm Jamaican Christmas time

Where there is no snow

Where the good sensimilla grow

Oh, oh, I wish that we could find

True love at Christmas time

Don't have to be concerned

Show some love and make the peace fire burn

Oh, oh (Rep)

Where we can party all the night away, hmm-mmm

Or enjoy the beaches where all the lovers play

You can take a swim and wash your tears away, yeah

Jammin' in the sun, just like Bob Marley say

Whoa, oh, oh

Relax inna the sun an' drink a Red Stripe beer

Tek a puff off a me spliff and blow the smoke inna the air

A listen reggae music 'pon a old barber chair

A look back inna life and a give thanks to be here

Consider meself lucky, although me shoes tear

A nuff a me colleagues dem drop out through the year

No have no bag a money or no new clothes fi wear

But if you hungry and me have a 10 dollar it we share, so

Oh, oh.