Key: Db major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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The African Convention
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Is gonna to take place in
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the nation
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There'll be delegations
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From one and all African
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stations
Verse 2
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We're sending invitations
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To people of African vibrations
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Open up all relations
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Come on and hear our syncopa
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tion
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Verse 3
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music
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Number two on the agenda is rhythm
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Number three on
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the agenda is dancing
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Number four on the agenda is
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lovin'
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Verse 4
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Every organisation
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Musicians and politicians
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Peasant and high society
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From the country and the city
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Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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Ma- Ma- Ma- Ma- Ma- Mandingo,
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Hausa, Fula
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(Beating on the tom- tom)
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Good beats from the Congo
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(Making sweet harmony)
Verse 6
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Number one on the agenda is mu sic (Sing your song,
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you mighty Zulu)
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Number two on the agenda is rhythm
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(Be- be- be- be- be- bebop in Dixieland)
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Number three on the agenda is dancing (Shake your
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body to Hamba Mama)
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Number four on the agenda lovin'
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(Open up all re lations)
Verse 7
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the African Convention
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Talk about the African
(Jamaica, mama)
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The African Convention (Shake your body,
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ma- a- ma, mama)
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Talk about the African,
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Open up all relations (Talk about
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the African)
(Johnny Parker)
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Talk about the African
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The African Convention
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the African Convention
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Verse 8
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We're gonna dance the blues away
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Talk about the African,
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the African Convention
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Do do do do do do the reggae, Jamaica,
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The African Convention
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Shake your body Papa,
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Mama (Talk about the African)
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The African Convention (The African
Convention)
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Is gonna to take place in the nation
(Talk about the African)
Verse 9
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(Talk about the Afric
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an) Open up all relations
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The African Convention
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Johnny Parker blow your horn
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(The African Convention)
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Talk about the African
Jamaica,
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The African Convention
The African Convention
Is settling on the nation
(Talk about the African)
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