UB40

Released: November 27, 1989

Songwriter: Honey Boy

Producer: UB40

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Length: 2:23

I've got to find sweet cherry
She's gone away from home
I've got to find sweet cherry
She's left me all alone

Cherry, Cherry
Don't go and leave me alone
Don't go and leave me alone

My thoughts are always with you
The emptiness leaves me blue
If you should ever desert me
Then life deserts me too

Cherry, Cherry
Don't go and leave me alone
Don't go and leave me alone

When we were together, downtown
We would do things together, downtown
The first place I met you, downtown
There we could always be

Cherry, Cherry
Don't go and leave me alone
Don't go and leave me alone

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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