"Skylarking" is a single by Jamaican singer and songwriter Horace Andy, produced by Studio One founder Coxsone Dodd.

[1] The song, lyrically an admonishment of loitering youths who expect handouts, has been described as Andy's signature tune.

[1][2] It was first issued, rendered "Sky Larking", on Dodd's Jamaica Today - The Seventies compilation in 1971.

[3] The song became a popular sound system hit, prompting a release as a single on the Studio One subsidiary Bongo Man.

[4] It topped the Jamaican singles chart published in The Gleaner in August 1972.