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Once upon a time I made a lion roar |
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He was sleeping in the sunbeams on the old zoo floor |
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I'd gone to see the park where my papa used to play |
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And It's called, called Villa Borghese and it's on the way |
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Ohh, to East Africa |
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Down on Grand Comoro Island, where I grew past four |
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Well I could swim and fish and snorkel on the ocean floor |
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And the wind laughed, and the wind laughed through the trees as if to say |
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Well here's a child who'll want the world to go his way |
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Ohh, in East Africa |
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Ohh, in East Africa |
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Come sing it |
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Suddenly for me the world turned upside down |
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Far from my friends the lions and the dolphins came this awful sound |
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Dark shadows, sounds of thunder raging over me |
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Came this monster called 'A-dre-no-leu-ko-dys-tro-phy' oh no |
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Ohh, where's my East Africa? |
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Well they said, they said, they said the ones who know it all |
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They said from now on for you there will be no more standing tall |
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So I took my parents hands, I lifted my head to say |
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Well I just have to be a hero, there ain't no other way, no other way |
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Ohh, back to East Africa |
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Ohh, back to East Africa |
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Ohh, back to East Africa |
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Back to East Africa, East Africa |
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Come with me I'm going back |
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I'm going back to East Africa |
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I'm going back, I'm going back |
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Come on |
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Come with me I'm going back |
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Come with me I'm going back |
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Come with me I'm going back |
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Come with me I'm going back |
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I'm going back to East Africa |
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Come with me, I'm going back |
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Come with me, come with me |
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Come with me, come with me |
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East Africa |
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I'm going back to East Africa |
