UB40

Released: February 8, 2010

Songwriter: Hopeton Lewis

Producer: UB40

Come and gather round children
Lets get together and sing this song
Got to settle down children
Lets all join and sing this song sing it sing it

Boom shaka laka laka, boom boom boom
Boom shaka laka laka, boom boom boom
Boom shaka laka laka, boom boom boom
Boom shaka laka laka, boom boom boom

I’d like to take this time to thank you all
Thank you from the soul deep in my heart
Thank you for the love that’s going around
We give it to you in some sweet sound
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Boom shaka laka, boom boom boom
Boom shaka laka, boom boom boom

Dance the little children while I sing this song
Jump a little bit higher while I sing this song
Sing it boom shaka laka laka boom boom boom
Sing it boom shaka laka laka boom boom boom
Sing it boom shaka laka laka boom boom boom
Sing it boom shaka laka laka boom boom boom

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Boom shaka laka laka boom boom boom
Boom shaka laka laka boom boom boom
Boom shaka laka laka boom boom boom
Boom shaka laka laka boom boom boom

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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