Key: G minor
Verse 1
Dm
Bb
because, alright,
I'll start from the start
The first
Dm
Time I went I was like 7 but then I went for a wedding,
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my aunt's wedding but like I
Sierra
Leone having multiple siblings in the
UK
Like growing up I had like this
picture in my head of what the
UK was like and
Leone up till then like 7, in
Sierra
Leone the
Dm
Coolest thing was to go to the beach so in
my head like when they talk about the
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UK, all I thought was it's all sandy like,
Dm
it's like sand everywhere, blue sky you know and water
Here and there. I remember when they talk about the underground,
Gm
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auntie and I used to talk
About underground all the time. I'm like oh it must
Dm
be like a tractor on the sand and it digs
Under the ground
So obviously I got the shock of my life when
Dm
Oh it's just normal like wet grey block brick houses
C
Bb
you know cold as hell all right the first
Intimidating thing was the plane i was like what that shit
So when i was nine that was the second time i went
it was called the
Elder
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Bb
Dempster line, and the boat we went
On was called the
Enviore
the boat, that's the prowl that makes the talk
And look down, that's the scariest thing in the world,
Down underneath, and you just see the water passing,
Want to dive in, it's really weird
C
Bb
Mum did, fairly actively actually, offer
us opportunities to go to
Nigeria and did say
Dm
Like around, especially I remember around 2009 time I stopped,
senior school co- ops
Nigeria a few times after my dad divorced
and was like, yeah you
Can come to
Nigeria
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And we just didn't really see it as an option that we were excited about,
you know, at that
C
Time
London, know
South
London
Catford, you know
Caribbean
Dm
Culture is probably more popping at that time,
African
And stuff
Like from the beginning,
I would always just say I was
I actually picked up from my dad because
C
Bb
when we used to be on holiday in
Europe or wherever
Dm
Whenever someone would say where are you from to him,
he would never say the
UK, and he
Was born in the
UK and has a
Bb
British passport and went to school in the
UK, but he would
Never say that, he'd be like
West
Africa is
Sierra
Leone
that's obviously from
Africa
Originally parents from
London
That generation gap between
me and my parents
Africa very difficult, I found
my parents about that
I never really understood
their story
Obviously, my parents moved from
Dm
Sierra
Leone during the war and stuff
So there's a lot to it that I don't know
So, a couple of years ago, my auntie
My mum's sister
And during that time,
So me and her got a lot closer
Every time she would come into
the room and just hear her cry
And through that, we started
talking
She started to open up about
C
Bb
her story a bit more
And it just
What I remember seeing her have in that
conversation
Was just being emotional
Bb
I was inspired by her story and I just thought to myself that all the time people,
especially young kids growing up in
London, who have
Dm
African parents, you grow up hating your parents because you think they're strict on you, they think there's hate,
C
Bb
that they're not in touch with your culture because you grew up in a world where they're from
Africa
So, for me, I wanted to make sure that people
Dm
understood how important their parents were
Because my parents moved from
bro
Just to give me the better opportunity
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I think if that generational conversation
C
Bb
was had between parents of
African descent
And children who have been born in
Africa, people would be much more
Africa
You know what saying?
Obviously there's the
Africa which has its issues
And it me away from
Africa
Africa and seeing it as beautiful
Spots
We all love
Spots, you know?
Dm
And I think that's what brings us together
I think it was nice
Dm
C
it's a bit like when a kid in school kind of like
Dm
they do like that extra effort to kind of like, you know
Be part of something. I don't know, I just, I feel,
They like accepted me in a weird way,
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C
F
Bb
like I wasn't half way yet, like
Dm
How's it going?
Fine
Yo man, what's up?
What's
Dm
Come
C
Bb
Come on
Jimmy!
Where do you live?
Main
Street
Main
Street what?
I don't know
Main
Dm
Street?
Which girl's house?
Dm
C
Which girl's house?
Are you
Sierra
Leonean?
My mama in
Como
England
In the hopper
In the hopper?
Yeah
C
Bb
You know the man that they call
Sim
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Tussim
Tussim?
Tussim!
You know
Tussim?
You know
Tussim?
Yeah
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