I Love Africa

I love Africa, my beautiful Africa I can roam in the bushes I can run up the mountains Down the valleys Across the plains Or get lost in the forests Or the caves I can soak the sun On the sand at the beach Or bake in the desert sun Until I should find an oasis I can stand on the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro And if that is too tall I can try the difficult Mt. Kenya And touch the floating cloud I can swim in the ocean or in the lake Or in the dam or pond or paddle I can also swim in the Nile or the Congo Or the Niger or the Zambezi or the Limpopo Or a thousand other rivers I can catch kamongo in Lake Victoria Or the bream on Lake Tanganyika or Malawi Or bait the tiger fish in Kariba or Cahora Bassa I can mine diamonds in Congo or Chiadzwa Dig for gold in Ghana or Tanzania Or just pick gems and cowry shells wherever I roam From Cape to Cairo and from Timbuktu to Mombasa Or just in my dreams.