africas inside me chords by Arrested Development
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Intro 1
(B minor) (D major) (C major) (A minor) (G major)
(C major) (A minor) (G major)
(D major) (C major) (A minor) (E minor) (C major)
(D major) (C major)
Verse 1
(D major) Universal as I (C major) stroll down the street (A minor)
Africas's a bolling over
(E minor) flowing in (C major) side of me
(D major) I used to sport a curl (C major) made by Jerry
A (A minor) Jerry curl
but as (E minor) time passed it (C major) didn't last
(D major) after my (G major) curl I never (C major) combed my doo.
I (A minor) used to sport a cap but the (E minor) naps
kept shining (G major) through. (C major)
Shin (G major) ing!
My sista got a brand new (C major) perm
my (A minor) boys says she looks pretty
(D major) fine body real firm
(G major) folds at her job loves (C major) her new touch up
I can (A minor) tell her white boss gets a
(G major) kick when she's (D major) all done up.
My (G major) sista loves (C major) her blackness
but the (A minor) US. says that her per
(C major) m is her attractiveness.
(G major) But Africa keeps (C major) coming
stronger-we found found out
it ain't a perm it's a temporary
(D major) Don't heve sash to go (C major) to the music school
no (A minor) money for the guitar or
the (C major) violin or the tuba
my moms had a record
player and the 45's
I put the needle on the record and
I kicked it crazy (D major) live
scratching it up (C major) catching the breaks
(A minor) spirits with (C major) in me had me (D major) do what it (C major) takes
(D major) Grammy's I win & one (C major) again
like my Egyptian (A minor) kin
it's Africa with (E minor) in makin' (G major) something
outta (D major) nothing!
CHORUS: (x2) (C major) Africa's inside
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Verse 2
(D major)
me
taking (E minor) back (G major) her child
(D major) she's giving (C major) me my pride
(D major) and set (A minor) ting (E minor) me (D major) free.
Interlude 1
(G major) (C major) (A minor) (C major) (E minor) (G major)
(D major) (C major) (A minor)
(C major) (G major) (B minor) (G major) (C major)
(A minor) (E minor) (B minor) (C major)
(A minor) (E minor)
Verse 3
(G major) What's that land across (C major)
those waters?
(A minor) what's that spirit
(G major) makin'love to my (C major) daughter
(G major) telling her not to eat he
(C major) mama's ham hocks
al (A minor) lowing her the choice to twist
her (E minor) hair & make it lock.
yo (G major) I don't like it, I (C major) just don't like it.
(A minor) Papa may say buy my (G major) soul is a boilin'
and (D major) sooner or later Africa's (C major) glory and toil
will (A minor) teach an old dog new (E minor) tricks
Why and the world (D major) can't
(G major) every (C major) body
recognize that (A minor) Africa's in every (E minor) body?
we (C major) all ask why (D major) can't we be
sista's and (C major) brothers
but first we gotta (A minor) accept
who is our (G major) mother
Rather (D major) (C major) embracer of the jungle
(A minor) or ghetto (C major) melanin dwells
but could stop growth
(D major) an d developments Ar
(C major) rested for nothing
Gumbo's (G major) within' soulful
H20 men be droppin'
Happenin's like (C major) Homosapi
(A minor) ans Hustlins
within' to exist as (E minor) afro
(C major) (D major) USA...men
residing in Fu (C major) lani was once Christian.
Start fishin' (A minor) like FOS (E minor) and found (C major) origin! (D major) (C major) (Dsus4) (E minor) (G major) (E minor) (C major)
(A minor)
(E minor) (D major) (E minor) (C major)
(D major) (C major) (Dsus4) (C major)
(D major) (E minor) (G major) (D major) (C major)
(A minor) (D major) (C major) (D major) (C major)
(A minor)
(D major) CHORUS
Outro 1
(D major) (C major) (A minor) (G major) (E minor) (D major)
(C major)
(D major) (E minor) (C major) (D major)
(C major) (A minor) (E minor) (D major) (C major)
africas inside me
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