Key: F# minor
Verse 1
Fm
Bbm
Yo, in case you ain't know
Fm
I go by the name of Akon
Bbm
and I'm from
Fm
(Africa, Africa)
Home of the Goree Islands
Verse 2
Bbm
I'm from Senegal, West- side
Fm
(Africa, Africa)
So I'ma share with you
where I'm from
And how I was comin'
Bbm
up
(Africa, Africa)
Fm
So what you know
Verse 3
about the struggles
Bbm
That my people went through
So you can live the way you live now?
Fm
So what you know about seeing
That brand new mother givin'
Bbm
away her newborn child?
Fm
So what you know
Verse 4
about
Mr.Amadou Diallo
Bbm
The Senegalese cop shot down?
Fm
So what you know about
How people love to perceive us
Bbm
When we come into a brand new town?
Fm
So what you know
Verse 5
about
the Goree Islands
Bbm
Where all the slaves were shipped from?
Fm
So what you know about
Being born in America to
Bbm
avoid immigration?
Fm
Still from the
Verse 6
ghetto, ooh,
Bbm
of Senegal
Fm
(Africa, Africa)
Comin' from the ghetto, ooh of Senegal
Bbm
Fm
(Africa, Africa)
Verse 7
Comin' from the ghetto, ooh, of Senegal
Bbm
(Africa, Africa)
Fm
Yes, I'm comin' from the ghetto,
ooh, of Senegal
Bbm
(Africa, Africa)
Fm
So what you know
Verse 8
about
Tchebou Dje
Yassa, Deraay and Maa
Bbm
fay, my favorite foods?
Fm
So what you know about niggas
throwin' rocks
Bustin' shots at the mil
Bbm
itary invadin' my hood?
Fm
So what you know
Verse 9
about kids
with automatic machines
Bbm
Waiting for the war to get on that side?
Fm
So what you know about how God
comes first in our lives?
Bbm
Everything that we do is for Allah
Fm
So what you know
Verse 10
about that Holy
Bbm
place called Touba
Where Prophets were born?
Fm
So what you know about
comin' here
Bbm
Gettin' money and investing
it back home?
Fm
Right in the
Verse 11
ghetto,
Bbm
ooo, of Senagal
Fm
(Africa, Africa)
Give it to the ghetto, ooo, of Senegal
Bbm
Fm
(Africa, Africa)
Verse 12
Take it to the ghetto, ooo, of Senegal
Bbm
(Africa, Africa)
Fm
Send it right to the ghetto,
ooo, of Senegal
Bbm
Fm
(Africa, Africa)
Verse 13
Bbm
Now see that's just a little piece of how it is
Fm
(Africa, Africa)
See, but we can come together
And make it 'lot better back
Bbm
home
Fm
(Africa, Africa) So don't complain
about how they treat me here
Take your millions of dollars there,
Bbm
back to
Fm
(Africa, Africa)
We own that land,
Bbm
we owned those diamonds
Fm
(Africa, Africa)
Cm
We kings man, we don't take orders,
we give 'em
Think about it
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