When We Were Kings
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'He made his point, Kinshasa was
one of the safest cities in Africa,

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'in all the world, while the foreign
press was there for the fight.'

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(Slow blues)
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'To me, the drum was the communicator
since the beginning of time,

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'I'm sure it was
the first message ever sent.

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'The beat today
and the beats centuries ago

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'are the only thing
that's kept us together.'

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We had this thing, when we hurt,
we sung for trial and tribulation,

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and for relief, we sung songs to God
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and this music that you hear today
is the same songs

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that have been made popular around
the world without any volition.

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Oh!
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'So anybody who knows anything
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'about the rhythm and the blues
as they're so-called,

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'should know about Africa.'
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# When I first met you, baby
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# Baby, you were just
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# Sweet sixteen

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