Over Africa Chords
Over Africa by Gretchen Peters is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Cadd9, F, G, Am, Dm7 and Csus4. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
CAPO: 2nd Fret
Intro: C Cadd9 C Cadd9 C Cadd9 C F C
F C
Under Kilimanjaro she guards her young
F C
And she speaks to the darkness in the mother tongue
F C
She waits and she watches all night long
F C
Calls to her lover and she sings this song
F G F C
I will be there for you whatever comes
F G F Am
I am as constant as the beat of drums
F
My love is stronger than the noonday sun
Dm7
Over Africa
C G C Cadd9 F C Cadd9 C
Over A---frica____
F C
It's a force of nature, it's the power of need
F C
Love will heal you, baby, and it'll make you bleed
F C
But I will be patient, I will bide my time
F C
I will be waiting like a mama lion
F G F C
I will be there for you whatever comes
F G F Am
I am as constant as the beat of drums
F
My love is stronger than the noonday sun
Dm7
Over Africa
C G C Cadd9 F C Cadd9 C F G
Over A---frica____
Bridge:
F G
Between love and money, between pride and sin
F
We are just wild things underneath the skin
G F Csus4
In the cradle of creation we were made this way
F C Cadd9 F C Cadd9 C
Bound together 'til our dying day_____
F C
It's the law of the jungle, it's the ancient truth
F C
Live by the senses, baby, die by the tooth
F C
But I would walk through fire, I would swim the sea
F C
Long as I live and breathe, you belong to me
F G F C
And I will be there for you whatever comes
F G F Am
I am as constant as the beat of drums
F
My love is stronger than the noonday sun
Dm7
Over Africa
C G
Over A---frica____
OUTRO:
C Cadd9 F C Cadd9 F C