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Featuring: Spragga Benz

Songwriter: Carlton Grant Shanice Grant UB40

Producer: UB40

Queen and country, freedom cry
God and glory, do or die
Propaganda, spin and lie
Who are you fighting for?

You do the shooting they do the looting
You do the killing they do the drilling
You do the dying they do the lying
All the way to the bank, you can hear them crying

Sell the arms, suppress the truth
Create the fear, invent the proof
Wave the flag don't tell the youth
Who they are fighting for

You do the shooting they do the looting
You do the killing they do the drilling
You do the dying they do the lying
All the way to the bank, you can hear them crying

Weapon dealing, profiteering
Country stealing, ethnic clearing
Asset stripping, oil dripping
Architects of war

You do the shooting they do the looting
You do the killing they do the drilling
You do the dying they do the lying
All the way to the bank, you can hear them crying

UB40

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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