Gm
See I've been walking down this road
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For about 35 years now, and I can tell you, it's been one hell of a ride
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And I've been carrying my father's words that he said to me
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Learn to be wise, walk with integrity and be honest
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And I can hear my grandma say, child I've got nothing to give you
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But may God be with you, in that distant land
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I am an African girl; well I know where I'm coming from
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And I know who I want to be
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I am trying to defy everything they said of us, we who have chocolate skin
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In the back of my mind all I can hear ooh ooh are voices
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Of those who are here and those who've already gone
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And I can hear them whispering, ooh ooh, mwari witu,
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When you go their land, please represent us well
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And I can hear my grandma say, child I've got nothing to give you
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But may God be with you, in that distant land
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I am an African girl, and I know where I'm coming from
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And I know who I want to be
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I am trying to defy everything they said of us, we who have chocolate skin

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I am an African girl, and I know where I'm coming from
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And I know who I want to be
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I am trying to defy everything they said of us, we who have chocolate skin
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I will sing, I will sing, I will sing        Oh oh oh oh
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I will sing, I will sing, I will sing        Oh oh oh oh

A Capella:
Ngai wa Ibrahamu, ithe witu, udirikane

Tondu wa thakame ya murugwo, udirikane, udirikane

Ndeithagia maundu makwa mothe, ndikamachonorithie, udirikane

Ndeithagia maundu makwa mothe, ndikamachonorithie, udirikane

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So I will sing, I will sing, I will sing        Oh oh oh oh
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I will sing, I will sing, I will sing        Oh oh oh oh
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Cause I am an African girl, and I know where I'm coming from
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And I know who I want to be
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I am an African girl, and I know where I'm coming from
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And I know who I want to be