Love Is All Is Alright by Ub40, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

Love Is All Is Alright

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A reggae band formed 1978 in Birmingham, UK. The music grasps from roots reggae and dub to lovers rock and pop. It is the second most commercial successful reggae band with +70 million sold albums. Many of their hits have been stylishly covers of early reggae and rocksteady hits from Jamaica. After success in UK, UB40's won USA with Labour of Love (1983), their first album of covers. UB40 was 1986 the first Western band to play behind the Iron Curtain, live in Moscow, Soviet Union.

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Here's the Rhythm/Reggae Guitar and Lyric layout for UB40's Love Is All Is Alright,
Taken from their 1982 L.P UB44 & it was their first #1 Single(#1 in Zimbabwe),It's
played with the staccato chop on the 2nd & 4th beats of the measures with Bb Cm Dm Cm
& Bb Cm Dm Eb throughout,With the occasional staccato triplet like feel where
the Dm Eb Cm or Eb F Dm are tabbed closer together and in those orders of progression.

[Chords]
Bb Cm Dm Eb F
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE E--A--D--G--B--E
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[Intro]
N.C (8 bars)
Bb Cm Dm Cm
Bb Cm Dm Eb

[Chorus 1]
Bb Cm Dm Cm
Love is all is alright
Bb Cm Dm Dm Eb Cm
But you left it a little too late
Bb Cm Dm Cm
Love is all is alright
Bb Cm Dm Cm
But you've got to find a little more hate

[Verse 1]
Bb Cm
Take the man in the white cloak
Dm Cm
A pointed mask to hide his face
Bb Cm
Murders in the name of religion
Eb F Dm Dm Eb Cm
If you're not the right color or race
N.C
Take the man in the black cloak
N.C
He's holding justice in his hands
N.C
Lets the man in the white cloak go
N.C
Calls it the law of the land

[Chorus 2]
Bb Cm Dm Cm
Love is all is alright
Bb Cm Dm Eb Cm
But you left it a little too late
Bb Cm
Love is all is alright
Bb Cm Dm Eb
But you've got to find a little more hate

[Eight Bar Sax Solo]
Bb Cm Dm Cm
Bb Cm Dm Eb

[Verse 2]
N.C
Take the man in the brown shirt
N.C
A burning hatred in his eyes
N.C
Fired by ignorant reaction
Eb
Fanned by political lies
Bb Cm
Take the man in the blue cap
Dm Cm
His back's against the wall
Bb Cm
Links arms with the man in the brown shirt
Dm Dm Eb Cm
He's trying to break his own fall

[Chorus 3]
Bb Cm Dm Cm
Love is all is alright
Bb Cm Dm Cm
But you left it a little too late
Bb Cm Dm Cm
Love is all is alright
Bb Cm Eb
But you've got to find a little more hate

[Break]
N.C
Love is all is alright

[Outro]
Bb Cm Dm Cm
Bb Cm Dm Cm
N.C
After those 8 Bars the Rhythm Guitar only has an odd echoing staccato chop,You can use Intro/outro to finish
Eb F Dm Dm Eb Cm Eb Cm
And the above Keyboard Dominated fills too?

Enjoy! Comments/Corrections welcome..