Editing In My Africa (song)

{{youmay|the song|[[In My Africa|the episode]]}}{{Music|artist=[[D.W.]] <small>([[Robert Naylor]])</small>, [[Cheikh]], and [[Alan Powers|Brain]] <small>([[Lyle O'Donohue]])</small>|image = In My Africa.jpg|caption = [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] and [[Cheikh]] dance|runtime = Throughout whole episode|firstsung = "[[In My Africa]]"}}
"'''In My Africa'''" is a song that is performed in "[[In My Africa]]." [[Alan Powers|Brain]], [[D.W. Read|D.W.]], and [[Cheikh]], a new student from Africa, create the song in the episode so that they can more easily remember facts about Africa. D.W. and Cheikh later sing it to their preschool class.

==Lyrics==
:''Fifty-four things''
: ''Fifty-four''
: ''Things to see and to explore''

'''Chorus:'''
:''In my Africa''
: ''Whoa, whoa, whoa''
:''In my Africa''
: ''Whoa, whoa, whoa''

'''I:'''
:''The continent of Africa is deep and long and wide''
:''With 54 countries to keep my song diversified''
:''There's rhythmic beats, new things to eat, and places you can go''
:''And every day, a different way that you can say hello''

:''For instance'','' ''meeng-gah-bou'' is "howdy-do" when visiting in [[wikipedia: Ghana|Ghana]]''
:Dumela ma'' is how you say "Hello" inside [[wikipedia: Botswana|Botswana]]''
:''The Muslims greet the folks they meet with, "''Salaam aleikum''"''
:''In the [[wikipedia: Gambia|Gambia]], [[wikipedia: Morocco|Morocco]] and [[wikipedia: Sudan|Sudan]]'s hometown Khartoum''

'''Chorus:'''
:''In my Africa''
: ''Whoa, whoa, whoa''
:''In my Africa''
: ''See this when you go''

'''II:'''
:''[[wikipedia:Burundi|Burundi's]] got the deepest lake and then the highest peak''
:''Juts up from [[wikipedia: Tanzania|Tanzania]] just next door to [[wikipedia: Mozambique|Mozambique]]''
:''And carving through the continent there flows the mighty Nile''
:''Past [[wikipedia: Uganda|Uganda]], [[wikipedia: Eritrea|Eritrea]] and... look out! A crocodile!''

:''[[wikipedia:Namibia|Namibia]]'s wild Skeleton Coast is littered with wrecked ships''
:''And [[wikipedia:Ivory Coast|Côte d'lvoire]] has chocolate fields, I love my chocolate chips''
:''Victoria Falls in[[wikipedia: Zambia|Zambia]], it makes a mighty sound''
:''[[wikipedia:Zimbabwe|Zimbabwe]] shares the falls as well, there's lots to go around''

'''Chorus:'''
:''In my Africa''
: ''Whoa, whoa, whoa''
:''In my Africa''
: ''Life is all aglow''
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'''Chorus:'''
:''In my Africa''
: ''Whoa, whoa, whoa''
:''In my Africa''
: ''There's lots of food they grow''

'''III:'''
:''The [[wikipedia:Comoros|Comoros]] has the Coelacanth, a prehistoric fish''
:''In [[wikipedia:Republic of the Congo|Congo]], they eat mwamba stew, that stew's my favorite dish''
:''[[wikipedia:São Tomé and Príncipe|São Tomé and Príncipe]], they like their food with spice''
:''The fish in [[wikipedia: Mauritius|Mauritius]] is hot and delicious, it's really very nice''

:''Sahara in [[wikipedia: Algeria|Algeria]]'s a hot and arid land''
:''Vacation in the [[wikipedia: Seychelles|Seychelles]] and relax upon the sand''
:''The [[wikipedia: Madagascar|Madagascar]] aye-aye taps on trees to find its lunch''
:''If you like grains, then you'll love [[wikipedia: Mauritania|Mauritania]]—they munch rice a bunch''

:''The farmers out in [[wikipedia: Kenya|Kenya]], they raise cattle, goats, and hens''
:''And [[wikipedia:Burkina Faso|Burkina Faso]]'s called "The Land of Upright Men"''
:''The cotton from [[wikipedia:Benin|Benin]] is in the clothes we wear to school''
:''There's 40 words for "camel" in [[wikipedia:Somalia|Somalia]]''—''pretty cool!''

:''Hey!''

'''IV:'''
:''Bembeya Jazz comes from [[wikipedia: Guinea|Guinea]]''
:''Baobab trees are stout, not skinny''
:''[[wikipedia:Ethiopia|Ethiopians]] eat teff, not "potator"''
:''[[wikipedia: Equatorial Guinea|Equatorial Guinea]]'s quite near the equator''

:''One street in [[wikipedia: South Africa|South Africa]]'': two Peace Prize winners''
:''In [[wikipedia: Togo|Togo]], they eat fufu for dinner''
:''[[wikipedia:Senegal|Senegal]]'s got a [[wikipedia: Lake Retba|pink lake]], [[wikipedia:Mali|Mali]]'s got the [[wikipedia:Tuareg people|Blue Men]]''
:''The folks in [[wikipedia:Nigeria|Nigeria]] spice food with cumin''
: ''They do. It makes a tasty stew!''
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:''Fifty-four things''
: ''Fifty-four''
:''Things to see and to explore''

'''Chorus:'''
:''In my Africa''
: ''Whoa, whoa, whoa''
:''In my Africa''
: ''Whoa, whoa, whoa''

'''V:'''
:''The world's biggest frog is found inside of [[wikipedia: Cameroon|Cameroon]]''
:''In [[wikipedia:Chad|Chad]], the lungfish yawn and wake up when it rains in June''
:''Gorillas in [[wikipedia:Rwanda|Rwanda]] have a hooting sort of speech''
:''Go to [[wikipedia: Gabon|Gabon]] to see an elephant walk on the beach''

:''[[wikipedia:Angola|Angola]]'s full of dino bones; museum in the ground''
:''[[wikipedia:Libya|Libya]]'s got those Roman ruins, the coolest ruins around''
:''And [[wikipedia: Egypt|Egypt]] has the pyramids, the Sphinx, and King Tut's tomb''
:''[[wikipedia: Malawi|Malawi]]'s got a town called "Livingstonia," I presume''

'''Chorus:'''
:''In my Africa''
: ''Whoa, whoa, whoa''
:''In my Africa''
: ''Joy and beauty flow''

'''VI:'''
:''[[wikipedia:Tunisia|Tunisia]]'s known for gorgeous gates and [[wikipedia:Swaziland|Swaziland]] makes glass''
:''From old recycled bottles that the boys and girls amass''
:''[[wikipedia:Lesotho|Lesotho]]'s folks don't go outside without their fancy hats''
:''The artists in [[wikipedia: Sierra Leone|Sierra Leone]] weave really pretty mats''

:''The tunes they play in [[wikipedia:Niger|Niger]], hey! They're vital and alive''
:''The Hipco of [[wikipedia:Liberia|Liberia]], that style's gonna thrive''
:''[[wikipedia:Cape Verde|Cape Verde]]'s got the morna''—''Man, I dig that swinging beat''
:''[[wikipedia:Guinea-Bissau|Guinea-Bissau]]'s gumbe just makes me want to stomp my feet''

'''Chorus:'''
:''In my Africa''
: ''Whoa, whoa, whoa''
:''In my Africa''
: ''It's almost time to go''

'''VII:'''
:''My Africa's an ageless land, I'm glad that you could see''
:''This continent so full of life, you're all my family''
:''And now we leave this loving place, its heartfelt family ties''
:''A warm embrace, a smiling face, a bittersweet goodbye''

'''Chorus:'''
:''To my Africa,''
:''[[wikipedia:Djibouti|Djibouti]], ''ma-uke ged ''or ''rae
:''Goodbye, Africa''
:''[[wikipedia:Somalia|Somalia]], ''nabad geylo'', hey!''

:''Magic Africa''
:''in the [[wikipedia:Central African Republic|CAR]], ''gue ngzoi!'' Hey!''
:''Lovely Africa,''
:''[[wikipedia: Democratic Republic of the Congo|D.R.C.]], ''reviens, s'il vous plâit''!''

:''Mighty Africa,''
:''[[wikipedia:Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic|Western Sahara]], ''Masalam!'' Oh, yay!''
:''In my Africa''
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