UB40

Released: March 2, 2018

Songwriter: Linda Creed Thom Bell

Producer: Ali Campbell

I talk about her all day long
At work, it seems I do things wrong
Thinking of the girl I love
My ebony eyes

She is everything a girl should be
Sometimes I find it hard to see
Why she loves a guy like me
My ebony eyes

Sweet little ebony eyes
Girl that got me hypnotized

Talking about the girl I love
My ebony eyes

There will never be, anyone as good for me
She is the only girl I'll ever love
My ebony eyes

{Trumpet Solo}

Sweet little ebony eyes
Girl that got me hypnotized

Talking about the girl I love
My ebony eyes

Sweetest little girl I love
My ebony eyes

Talking about the girl I love
My ebony eyes

Sweetest little girl I love
My ebony eyes

Sweet little ebony eyes

Talking about the girl I love
My ebony eyes

Sweet little ebony eyes

Sweetest little girl I love
My ebony eyes

Sweet little ebony eyes

Sweet little ebony eyes

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart. They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times, and in 1984 were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group. UB40 have sold over 70 million records. The ethnic make-up of the band’s original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Yemeni parentage.

Their hit singles include their debut “Food for Thought”, “Red Red Wine” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love”. Both of these also topped the UK Singles Chart, as did the band’s version of “I Got You Babe”. Their two most successful albums, Labour of Love (1983) and Promises and Lies (1993), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.

On January 24, 2008, it was announced that Ali Campbell would be leaving the group after 30 years. It was reported by some Birmingham newspapers on 13 March 2008, that Maxi Priest would be the new lead singer of UB40 and had recorded a cover of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” with the band.

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