UB40

Released: July 18, 2005

Songwriter: Winfred Lovett

Producer: UB40

I had to meet you here today
There's just so many things to say
Please don't stop me till I'm through
This is something I hate to do
We've been meeting here so long
I guess what we done, oh was wrong
Please darlin, don't you cry
Let's just kiss & say goodbye

Many months have passed us by
I'm gonna miss you
I can't lie, I've got ties, & so do you
I just think this is the thing to do

It's gonna hurt me I can't lie
Maybe you'll meet, you'll meet another guy
Understand me won't you try,try,try,try,try,try,try
Let's just kiss & say goodbye

I'm gonna miss you I can't lie
Understand me, won't you try
It's gonna hurt me I can't lie
Take my handkerchief & wipe your eyes
Maybe you'll find, you'll find another guy
Let's just kiss & say goodbye

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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