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Somalia easy guitar chords by
K'naan
K'naan

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Intro 1
Em
C
Em

G
C

Em
C
Em

Verse 1
Em

Uh,
C
G

C
G
C

Yeah,

Somalia
Verse 2
C

Yeah, I spit

it for my block,

It's an ode, I admit it.
G
Em

Here the city code is lock and load

Any minute is rock and roll
G

And you rock and roll,

And feel your soul leavin'.
C

It's just the wrong dance

That'll leave you not breathin'.

I'm not particularly proud

Of this predicament but,
Em

I'm born and bred

In this tenement, I'm sentimental, What?!
G

Plus it's only right to

represent my hood

And what not.
C

So I'm about to do it in the music,

in the movies.

Cut to the chase pan across
G

to the face
Em

I'm right there.
G

Freeze frame on the street name
C
G

Oops wait a minute,
Em

This is where the streets have no name
G
C

And the drain of sewage.
G

You can see it in this boy
C
G

how the hate is brewin'
C

Cause when his tummy tucks in
G

Fuck the pain is fluid.
Em

So what difference does it make,

Entertaining threw it.
G

Some get high mixing coke and gun powder,
C

sniffin'.

She got a gun but could have
G
C

been a model or physician.
Verse 3
C

So what you know bout the
Em

pirates terrorize the ocean.

To never know a simple day

without a big commotion.
G

It can't be healthy just to live

with a such steep emotion.
C

And when I try and sleep,
Em
G
C

I see coffins

closin'. (Repeat)

Yeah, Yeah,
Verse 4
C

We used to

take barb wire
G
Em

Mold them around discarded bike tires.
G

Roll em down the hill in foot blazin'.

Now that was our version
C
G

of mountain bike racing
C

Damn!

Do you see why it's amazing,

When someone comes out
G
Em

of such a dire situation

And learns the English language,
G
Em

Just to share his observation!
G

Probably get a Grammy without

a grammar education.
C

So fuck you school and fuck

you immigration!

And all of you who thought I wouldn't

amount to constipation.
G
Em

And now I'm here without the

slightest fear and preservation,
G

They love me in the slums and in

the native reservations.
C

The world is a ghetto with

ministerin' deprivation.

My mommy didn't raise no
Em

fool did she hooyo?

I promise I would get it and
Am

remain strictly loyal.
Em
G

Cause when they get it then

they let it all switch and spoil.
C

But I just illuminated it like kitchen foil.

A lot of main stream niggas is
G
Em

yappin' about yappin'

A lot of underground niggas is
G
Em

rappin' about rappin'.
G

I just wanna tell you what's
C

really crackalackan

Before the tears came down

this is what happened.
Verse 5
C

So what you know bout the
G

pirates terrorize the ocean.
Em

To never know a simple day

without a big commotion.
G

It can't be healthy just to live

with a such steep emotion.
C

And when I try and sleep,
Outro 1

I see coffins closin'. [Repeat: x2]
C
Em

G
C

Em

G
C

Em

G
C


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