Music video by UB40 performing Homely Girl. For all things UB40: https://linktr.ee/ub40official It must have broke your poor little heart When the boys used to say, You looked better in the dark. But now they'd give all they learnt in school To be somewhere in the dark with you The teacher would ask the questions And you, would always raise your hand But somehow you never got your turn And my eyes would fill with water, inside I'd burn Homely girl, you used to be so lonely You're a beautiful woman oh yes you are Homely girl you used to be so lonely You're a beautiful woman oh yeah There was a boy who used to sit beside you Who'd like to hold that place his whole life through Ooh you were beautiful to me You had a heart no one could ever see, oh yes you did Homely girl, you used to be so lonely You're a beautiful woman oh homely girl I was the only one who offered To carry your books Took all the stares and laughter And the dirty looks Cause I saw then what they see now They all want to ask you for a date They don't know how, they don't know how Homely girl, you used to be so lonely You're a beautiful woman oh yeah Homely girl you used to be so lonely You're a beautiful woman, ooh yea, ooh hoo You're a beautiful woman UB40’s Homely Girl, originally a hit for the Chi-Lites in 1973, was taken from their ninth studio album, Labour of Love II (1989). It was released as a single on November 6, 1989, in the United Kingdom. This cover reached the top 10 in the UK, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. In France, the song was used in a television advertisement for the Lee Cooper jeans. Track personnel: Jimmy Brown – drums Ali Campbell – vocals, guitar Robin Campbell – guitar, vocals, Earl Falconer – bass Norman Hassan – percussion, vocals, Brian Travers – saxophones Micky Virtue – keyboards Astro – toasting, rhyming, percussion