Africa Chords by Ijahman Levi

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[Cm] Oh, I feel calm, I [Bb] can hear the children crying,
[Cm] For hunger, _ [Bb] bitter fear at night, [Cm] Restless, hunger lies, and they can't get a bite.
_ [Bb] [Cm] And now in this crucial [Bb] time, Living in the ways it's hard to [Cm] survive.
_ In [Bb] this crucial time, [Eb] [Cm] Africa, crisis, _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ [Cm] oh Africa,
_ [C] There is wailing over [Bb] yonder, [Cm] oh Frido.
_ _ [Bb] Brothers and [Bb] sisters, [Cm] blood, sweat and tears,
For [Bb] over four hundred [Ab] years, [Bb] _ [Cm] After all had been said and [Bb] promised,
[Ab] Slavery's been [Bb] not yet [Cm] abolished.
[G] In this crucial [Ab] time, [Bb] [Cm] Africa, crisis,
_ [Bb] In this crucial [Ab] time, [Bb] [Cm] Africa, crisis, _ [Bb] Oh Lord, [Ab] all [Eb] over [Cm] the world,
_ But I know freedom [Ab] must come, [Bb] For [Cm] each little one, _ [Bb] oh Lord.
_ [Ab] _ [Bb] [Eb] Oh, Frido, _ [Bb] for the old [Eb] and the young, Oh, Frido, for [Bb]
generations [Cm] to come,
Stretch [Eb] forth your wings, and let's [Bb] all call [Cm] unto God,
[G] Oh, Africa, _ [Bb] _ _
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_ oh [Cm] Africa, _ [Bb] We are fighting [Ab] for the [Bb] years [Cm] of two thousand.
_ [Bb] And in this [D] age and [Bb] time, [Cm] this lost water mine,
[C] Many blocks still [Ab] hacked and [Bb] polished, [Cm] Thank you for the help of men to ask for help,
You can't [Ab] ever tell [Bb] me what [Cm] to do.
_ _ [Eb] In this crucial [Ab] time, [Cm] Africa, crisis,
_ [Bb] In this crucial time, [Cm] Africa, crisis, _ [Bb] Oh Lord, [F] all [Cm] over the world,
But I know freedom [Ab] must [Cm] come, For each little one here, _ _ _
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_ [Bb] _ [Cm] Oh, Africa, _ [Gm] I can hear the children [Ab] cry, [Gm] [Cm] For on God's [Bb]
distant mirror,
[Ab] But my [Bb] restless, [Cm] hungry lives, And [Bb] they can't get by.
[Ab] _ [Bb] [Cm] And now in this crucial time, Living in [Bb] the West is [Cm] hard to survive.
_ In this crucial time, [Eb] [Cm] Africa, crisis, _ [Bb] In this crucial time, [Cm] Africa, crisis,
_ In this crucial time, Africa, crisis, _ Oh Lord, [Bb] all over [Cm] the world,
_ [Bb] Whether you are black or [Eb] whether you [Cm] are brown, _ Let's straight [Bb] forward and _ [Eb] [Cm] call unto God.
_ [Bb] In this crucial time, [Cm] Africa, crisis, _ _ _ _ _ Oh Africa,
_ _ Oh, _ oh, oh, freedom,
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