Drum (Africa To America) chords by
Sounds Of Blackness

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Key: Eb major

Verse 1
D D 
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We Are The Drum
By Sounds of Blackness
In the beginning was the beat
And the beat is the rhythm of God
And the rhythm of God
Is the harmony of humanity
Bm Bm 2
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And where there is harmony,
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There is peace.

Interlude 1

Verse 2
D D 
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We are the drum
We are the drum
From Africa to America
We are the drum

Verse 3
Teach!
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We are the drum,
From the beginning of the mother
We are civilization during the dark ages
We are kings and queens
With lands that stretch from ocean to ocean
As the mighty Nile flows south
Where Eve is called Lucy
Northward to Egypt
Where Moses went down to the
get down
From the south to the north
Yeah, movin' up the right way.
We are all that.
And across the history
Of this vast continent of countries,

Verse 4
The drum speaks.
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We are the drum
We are the drum
From Africa to America
We are the drum

Verse 5

Uh, on one

Uh, on the drum

Uh, on the one

Verse 6
Come on come on come on!
G G 
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We are the drum.
D D 
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Taken from the mother in shackles.
Beat down in the new Babylon
Called America
Where chaos,
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D D 
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confusion and hatred reign supreme
But the rhythm
The rhythm plants the seeds of freedom
G G 
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D D 
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So we overcome with the rhythm
The drum speaks
Ebm Ebm 6
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The rhythm is

Verse 7
D D 
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my heart
and my freedom
Will you give up your rhythm?
No!
The rhythm is my heart and my freedom.
Will you let go of the beat?
No!
The rhythm is my heart
and my freedom?
Come on, selling your soul?!
No!
The rhythm is my heart and my freedom.
Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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Can ya stop playing your drum?
No!

Verse 8
No!
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G G 
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We are the drum.
D D 
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In the beginning was
G G 
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the beat of the drum
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Which began in the beginning
to beat freedom.
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D D 
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Oh freedom!

Verse 9
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D D 
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G G 
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Oh freedom
D D 
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D D 
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Oh freedom
G G 
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D D 
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Oh freedom
D D 
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Oh freedom
(Faze out)

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