UB40

Released: November 3, 2003

Songwriter: UB40

Producer: UB40

We dont need to make excuses
Together we are free
To throw away the rule book
And start with ABC

We can go to all the places
We always wanted to be
It takes a bad girl like you
To love someone like me

If you're looking for a daddy
You won't get that from me
There are things I want to do to you
That he should never see

You will never scare me baby
You can try anything with me
It takes a bad girl like you
To love someone like me

Don't need no little woman
A wallflower's not for me
The only way I want you girl
Is independently

Won't't lock you up in prison
And throw away the key
It takes a bad girl like you
To love someone like me

Not looking for redemption
It's much too late for me
The two of us together girl
Can set each other free

Children need a mother
Buts it's not the same for me
It takes a bad girl like you
To love someone like me

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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