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