[Intro] This program contains Real habitats Real behaviors Recorded across The African continent We begin At first light [Chorus] On the savanna Watch them move Every footprint Every groove From the sunrise grass to the river mouth This is Africa Spoken out loud (oh, listen now) From the tiny ant to the tall giraffe Every heartbeat writes a graph In the living archive of the wild and vast This is Africa Spoken out loud [Verse 1] East Africa Dawn temperature Twenty degrees Infrared camera A lioness returns from a night patrol Her cubs Tumble through dust the color of rust They will eat Once every few days She must walk Up to twenty kilometers To make that possible Further south In the Okavango floodplain A bull elephant locates water Through memory He remembers the last drought He leads his family Along the same buried map Etched in his mind [Chorus] On the savanna Watch them move Every footprint Every groove From the sunrise grass to the river mouth This is Africa Spoken out loud (hey, keep it rolling) From the tiny ant to the tall giraffe Every heartbeat writes a graph In the living archive of the wild and vast This is Africa Spoken out loud [Verse 2] Above the Great Rift A vulture circles Wingspan Nearly three meters It rides hot air Recycling what others leave behind Cleaning the land Quietly essential At night in the Congo Basin A fruit bat hangs Upside down Perfectly still By morning It will have planted forests Seed by seed Carried in its flight Along the Namib dunes A small beetle lifts its body Collecting mist on its back It drinks a cloud Then disappears beneath the sand [Chorus] On the savanna Watch them move Every footprint Every groove From the sunrise grass to the river mouth This is Africa Spoken out loud (oh, sing it loud) From the tiny ant to the tall giraffe Every heartbeat writes a graph In the living archive of the wild and vast This is Africa Spoken out loud [Bridge] Each biome From coral reef To mountain grassland Threads into the next Each choice We make Ripples A little farther than we think The story you are hearing Is still being written [Chorus] On the savanna Watch them move Every footprint Every groove From the sunrise grass to the river mouth This is Africa Spoken out loud (yeah, right now) From the tiny ant to the tall giraffe Every heartbeat writes a graph In the living archive of the wild and vast This is Africa Spoken out loud
