UB40

Released: November 3, 2003

Songwriter: UB40

Producer: UB40

Say we a just freestyle it
Because we wicked and wild it
Because we know how fe run it
And we just can't done it

And you know say we like it
And we have to excite it
If you come a dance
I say you might get frightin'

Because you know say we live it
And you say we love it
There is very few things I coulda really put above it
I love the booming of the base in a the speaker boxes
The treble in the tweeters it just
A tear off me hat see

I said you just can't trap it
I said you just can't unwrap it
Say you justs can't take it
Say you know you have to find it

Deep down in a your soul I say you have to feel it
Little after that you a go want to reveal it
'Cause music is a thing I say you
Know you have to share it

If me couldn't do that
Me just couldn't bear it
'Cause the love for the music on me
Sleeve me have fe wear it
Deep down in a me heart I said you
Just couldn't tear it

Me no like them journalist man
Dem come from different land
Say we is a white reggae band
Open your eyes no man you must be blind no man

You gwan like your cool man
Your heart must be black no man
Full of bad intention
We is dub organiser
A little oder and wiser

We no like wife beater spreading
Love would be sweeter
Out of many nations yes we are one
Just like the motto if you is Jamaicon

Deep in a the night the musics calling
Deep in a we hearts you know we're
Falling in love
It's like a religious calling
Calling calling you better send out
A warning
Calling calling you better send out
A warning

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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