UB40

Released: March 2, 2018

Songwriter: Dennis Brown

Producer: Ali Campbell

Wow ho ho yeah yeah
Wow ho now now
Oh oh yeah, yeah

How could I leave
How could I possibly go on
If you should say goodbye
Just like a rose
If you don't water it every morn
It withers and it dies

Promise you won't leave me
Promise you won't hurt me
Promise you won't ever make me blue
If you ever leave me, If you should desert me
Baby I don't know just what I'd do
I don't know just what I'd do
I really don't know just I'd do
Wow ho ho

It was ordained that man should leave his mother and cling
To the woman that he loves (Umm, yeah)
I'm very sure, that I could never love anyone
The way I love you now

Oh oh yeah
Wow ho ho ho
How could I, how could I baby
Wow yeah, yeah
Wow now now oh oh yeah... oh yeah

It was ordained that man should leave his mother and cling
To the woman that he loves (Umm, yeah)
I'm very sure, that I could never love anyone
The way I love you now

Oh oh yeah
Wow ho ho ho
How could I, how could I baby
Wow yeah, yeah
Wow now now oh oh yeah... oh yeah

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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