African    (video)    (clip)

 

    F - F# - G (4x)

 

                                     C

Don't care where you come from,

F                                    C                              G

    as long as you're a black man, you're an African.

                                C

No mind your nationality,

  F                          C                  G

you have got the identity of an African.

 

                                               F          - G                                      F

1. 'Cause if you come from Clarendon,    and if you come from Portland,

G                                       F                                     G

    and if you come from Westmoreland, you're an African.

 

                                         C

So don't care where you come from,

F                                   C                              G

    as long as you're a black man, you're an African.

                                C

No mind your nationality,

  F                          C                  G

you have got the identity of an African.

 

                                      F           - G                                            F

2. 'Cause if you come Trinidad',       and you if you come from Nassau,

G                                      F                       G

    and if you come from Cuba, you're an African.

 

                                         C

So don't care where you come from,

 F                               C                             G

as long as you're a black man, you're an African.

                                C

No mind your complexion  

    F               C                          G

there is no rejection, you're an African.

 

                                         F               G

+  'Cause if your plexion high, high, high,

                                   F            G

    if your complexion low, low, low,

                                   F                                 G

    and if your plexion in between, you're an African.

 

 

 

                                         C

So don't care where you come from,

 F                               C                            G

as long as you're a black man, you’re an African.

                            C

No mind denomination,

   F                        C                       G

that is only segregation, you're an African.

 

                                           F         - G                                    F

3. 'Cause if you go to the Catholic       and if you go to the Methodist,

G                                      F                                  G

    and if you go to the Church of God, you're an African.

 

                                         C

So don't care where you come from,

 F                               C                            G

as long as you're a black man, you're an African.

                                C

No mind your nationality

   F                         C                 G

you have got the identity of an African.

 

                                              F        - G                                       F

4. 'Cause if you come from Brixton,      and if you come from Weesday,

G                                       F             - G                                       F

    and if you come from Wingstead,       and if you come from France,

G                                        F         - G                                        F

    and if you come from Brooklyn,      and if you come from Queens,

G                                            F        - G                                      F

    and if you come from Manhattan,      and if you come from Canada....

 

    (Peter Tosh)