Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
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Other songs:
- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
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Gretchen Peters - Over Africa
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
CHORUS:
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
CHORUS:
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
CHORUS:
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: (## repeat and fade to end ##)
C Cadd9 F C Cadd9 F C
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
CHORUS:
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
CHORUS:
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
CHORUS:
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: (## repeat and fade to end ##)
C Cadd9 F C Cadd9 F C
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