Sing Our Own Song

{{Short description|1986 single by UB40}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Sing Our Own Song

| cover = UB40 Sing Our Own Song cover.png

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = UB40

| album = Rat in the Kitchen

| B-side = "Sing Our Own Song" (version)

| released = {{start date|1986|6|30|df=yes}}{{cite magazine|date=28 June 1986|title=Index|magazine=Record Mirror|page=2}}

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Reggae fusion

| length = {{duration|m=4|s=00}}

| label = DEP International

| writer = UB40

| producer = UB40

| prev_title = Don't Break My Heart

| prev_year = 1985

| next_title = All I Want to Do

| next_year = 1986

}}

"Sing Our Own Song" is a song written and performed by British reggae group UB40. It features backing singers Jaki Graham, Mo Birch and Ruby Turner and appeared as the ninth and final track on their seventh album, Rat in the Kitchen (1986). Released in 1986, it reached number five on the UK Singles Chart and became a number-one hit in the Netherlands.

The song was written as an anti-apartheid song and was censored in South Africa.{{cite web | url=https://sites.google.com/site/sabcmedialib/home/projects-1/avoidthecensoredsongs | title=Avoid the censored songs | publisher=SABC Media Libraries | access-date=13 June 2013}} Featuring the ANC rallying cry of "Amandla Awethu", it is considered a protest song of the time.{{cite web | url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/ub40.html|title=UB40 | publisher=www.thebiographychannel.co.uk | access-date=13 June 2013}}