Please Don't Send Me To Africa chords by The Stutzman Sisters

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Verse 1
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Oh Lord, I am your willing servant.
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You know that I have been for years.
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I'm here in this pew every
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Sunday and Wednesday
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I've stained it with many a tear
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I've given you years of my  service
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I've always given my best
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And I've never asked you
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for anything much
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So, Lord, I deserve this request
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Please don't send me to Africa
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I don't think I've got what it takes
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I'm just human, I'm not a Tarzan
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Don't like lions, gorillas, or snakes
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I'll serve you here in suburbia
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And my comfortable middle -class life
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But please don't send me
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out into the bush
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Where the natives are restless at night
I'll see that the money is gathered
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I'll see that the money is sent
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I'll wash and stack the communion cups,
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I'll tithe eleven percent.
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I'll volunteer for the nursery,
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I'll go on the youth group retreat.
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I'll usher, I'll deacon,
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I'll go door -to -door
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Just let me keep warming
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this seat
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Please don't send me to Africa
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I don't think I've got what it takes
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I'm just human, I'm not a Tarzan
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Don't like lions, gorillas, or snakes
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I'll serve you here in suburbia
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In my comfortable middle -class life
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But please don't send me
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out into the bush
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Where the natives are restless at night
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Please don't send me to Africa
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I don't think I've got what it takes
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I'm just human,
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I'm not a thunderslayer
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Don't like lions, gorillas, or snakes
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I'll serve you here in suburbia
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My comfortable middle -class life
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But please don't send
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me out into the bush
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Oh  look at the cute little egg -legged kitty!
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That's a tarantula!
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Oh my goodness,
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there's no shopping malls?
No way!
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Oh my word, look at my nails!
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I just got a stain on my
cashmere sweater
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No way!
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Please don't send me
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to the ends of the earth
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Oh  mom, I'll clean up my room every night
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