The word in Poverty Knock is "skinny" meaning "skinflint," quite different from skint . Skint is not having money, Skinny is not giving it away. Interestingly enough, Ian Robb has pointed out that you might explain this meaning of "skinny" to American audiences unfamiliar with the word, but then in the last verse up it pops again in its other meaning of "thin." (Well, I think that's interesting anyway…)