UB40 - Food For Thought Lyrics
Ivory Madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.
Barren is her bosom, empty as her eyes,
Death a certain harvest scattered from the skies.
Ancient eyes are peeping, from his infant head.
Politician's argue sharpening their knives.
Drawing up their bargains, trading baby lives.
Ivory madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.
Hear the bells are ringing, Christmas on it's way.
Hear the angels singing, what is that they say?
Eat and drink rejoicing, joy is here to stay.
Ivory Madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.
Ivory Madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.
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UB40 Food For Thought Comments
Magnifique
2020 always!
Heard this in a supermarket and had to look the fucker up, so glad I did :)))))))
Still love this. One of UB 40's best!
If you ever feeling blue, listen to UB40, it's what life's really for, even at 64
Loved this music all my life and I'm 25 and I always will
Great song! Love it!
Early ub40 were unreal
I remember once upon a time I sat by the record player and remember Ed this the best God bless bhamx
2020 still crazy in love with this masterpiece ❤️
My go to track to take me back,roots of my childhood.
What a track👌🏻❤️
@Jody precisely <3
Awesome song and I would be listening in 2120 if I was still alive lol
2020 🙌
Sax me baby.
Luv dub 2020. Happy new Decade To All The People of Peace
This was pinnacle of the 80's!
Really love this song best there is !!!
Bring back the dole.
Ivory Madonna!!
Their bestest.,
I've been looking for this track for ages, I feel like a skyscraper this afternoon
this guys had very intelligent lyrics
For years and years I thought they sang I'm a premadonna lol a great song xx
Thats when I first asked what a premadonna was , when I was about 10.
It cracked everyone up , so they stuck with the idea.
So for me it was "Im a premadonna" for months.
( the real fact of it is that no-one really knew what a premadonna was )
Im 47 fucking right
Best UB40 song
Pueden pasar 3000 fox = 666 000= 666
FOX = 6 FFF= 666 OOO= 666 XXX= 666....futbol Francia seleccion FFF= 666......
SAMANTA FOX FOX= 666
U= 3 B= 2 UB 40 = 32 40 432 HERTZ 440 HERTZ 🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦
White mans reggae.........1979.......Ali and the Boys........trailblazing to deny racism in Britain!!!.....RESPECT
I'm 56 now but remember them playing this live when I was about 16/17 totally blown away 🎶🎵🎶🔊
Le son mon papa🎶❤️
Cheeeeeehooooooo!
tune that never dies unlike us
johnny mac
We may die but we won't disappear, we return to stardust...
@Guinea Pig this is true we are all made of stars my friend.
Diego Maradona
Trip down memory lane... With my friends in the bathroom doing our make up and hair before going out!! Talking and laughing... Those were the days..... Loving it
Signing Off was my first album and the perfect stoner album, still.
What a banging tune 😃😃😃
I haven’t heard this for around 40 years but I still know the tune. This and ‘The Earth Dies Screaming’ are probably my favourite UB40 songs.
Very good enjoyed it
I never really understood people who didnt like a reggae beat ? even if you can't dance, just nod your head to the beat and you're skanking.
Aaah!!! I've had the little tune at the start in my head for soooooo long and knew it had a UB40 sound to it. Been going through all of them and finally I've found it!! 😁
Reminds me of chilling out in my bedroom when I was 16. Oh for those carefree days again. 😊
ya que el meteorito no vino . vamos a relajarnos con este tema en el 5/10/2019 :v
visti a milano
Great stuff this takes me back..im 50 now & cant believe how times gone..
Positive vibes come through jah bless ub40 from fiji island
Esta canção de reggae me relembra aquela clássica do rock: Hotel California.
Gousirtreene voices rockshards drugs smokers poors greens sales fix grows stores signs hospitals marley bob ok..well at top..partys vip..drop..musics smokes greens yea ok..pipi sucks bodys poors thugs ok.needs knew goods too losts they wats beds or bars drinking own room ok..loves girl worker white girl lady ok..kick with your sex sexkiew knew can works lines same for it works in deep loves some thing lot much goods..next to your watchs..kiss
228 people haven’t got a fucking clue
Rocking this in form one 80's North island NZ,45 now&man the memory's&love for this band,Great song!
That sax oh yeaa!
Henley rewind 2020 and they still got it ……….
#winteriscoming
Oh meu Deus! Como me lembro dos anos 90! Nasci no melhor lugar e ano de todos!
The first time i heard this song was in early 80, since that moment i loved it, all because of my little brother Caroll (R.I.P)who was a big UB40 fan.
a sultry sax always doed the trick,,a shout out drom the low lands
I am 53 and proud to be a part of great reggae music👍👍👍👍
Such a great song👍☝👍
Food for thought and 1 in 10. Can never decide which is best. Reminds me so much of my late teens early 20's.
I was out in St Maarten a couple of years ago and was SOOOO p****d off to find out UB40 were out there playing the week after I left !!!!!
Going to a UB40 gig in the Caribbean woulda been fantastic.
A liitle known fact, I would imagine, told to me by a mate was that a lot of the tracks that UB40 did covers of were done so because the original artist had been ripped off by music producers/record labels at the time of release and UB40's gig was to give the royalties from their sales to the original artist.
I have no reason not to believe it was a true tale and that just puts UB40 on an even higher plane than they were on already as far as I'm concerned.
This one is
I’m 47 years old and still loving UB40
213 twits didn’t like this song
Like this band
i'm learning english with this song 2019!! is cool
WH it means Ivory Madonna? Who is? Trying to understand the meaning of this beautiful and inspire song.
The opening song from the most famous Dole Boys from Birmingham. And a bloody good tune too if you don't mind my saying....
Beautiful guitar this song sends me😊
Now that's a fucking tune. I wonder if he's still living in kings heath .
Question is, how did a band this good end up doing shite like Kingston Town? The beginning of the end right there.
Remix w could u b love. Nice.
When a 13 year old says he likes ub40 there’s no more to be said
U konw that ?
For my the best song of ub40'👊👊👊
Played this with a cover band back in the 80's :D
Pure brilliance.
Pure class :) absolutely timeless.
35 years old and still sounds every bit as good as it ever did..If not better in my ears.
Bcfc brought me here!!! #KRO
I'm 15 years old and I listen to UB40 everyday
An all time classic that'll never die
Почему я так кайфую от этого трека? Всем добра, Джа с нами!
Fresh as as a daisy today as it ever was!!
luv it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPtpfLRMz40
Im 17 and yoooo dis is a meannn stoney song
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😍😍
Reminds me of my childhood
Cancion excelente. Gracias Reggae. Maravilloso
No comment
muito bom
2019 anyone?
Mieux que bob sauf pour les tox 😂
smoothed
Reminds me of working on the fair best track by ub40 by miles
i repot myself ha joke
eat what i want. see my freind if there avaliable . my place is a mess . i have no one to tell me that to do . remote mind tv mind only mind
Fantastic
Barry island holiday with school Barr beacon comprehensive
Still listening in my mid-40s, brings back many fond memories, hangin out with your mates, riding around on your bike till your mum called for dinnertime! 😁 Good Times, Good memories! 👍🏽🖤👊🏽
mPs sarpend knives lovely line
One of my very favourite tracks, but then I love them all. Best band ever!