Nairobi

C             F                      C

*Nairobi Nairobi pick pockets and thieves

C                    G7                        C

Nairobi Nairobi purple Jacaranda trees

                   F                   C

Nairobi Nairobi green city in the sun

            C     G7                              C

Nairobi Nairobi clouds when the day is done

 

          G7                     C                        G7             C             

You’re stuck on top of the world Jomo Kennyatta land

             G7                   C                                  G7                                       

Half man half god who knows he was Kenya’s most powerful man

 

*

G7           C        C        G7           G C

You came from the railway built on a swamp

G7                C                               G77                          

you can see those bygone days in Nairobi when ever you want

 

*

          G7 C                 C                 G7         C         

You’ve got some tall buildings concrete and glass

G7              C C            G7                          

and you can see the mud huts just as in days gone past

 

*

F                                         C                               

You’ve got some white men and you’ve got some black men

G7                       C

but no more colonial rule

F                            C                           Am

Some of those whites think they're the better men

F                                   G7

but those Africans are not fools

 

*

G7 C               C         G7              7  C

The street traders jostle trying to sell their wares

                 G7 C               C            G7                                              

but there’s a lot of free beauty you’ve got green and yellow birds.

 

*

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ISWC T-011.367.783-0             MCPS/PRS London Tune Code  6686633L          Written Clarke November 1981

 

Sound Recording on the Album 'Songs of Hello and Good Bye' By Almond Greenway

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