Toto - Africa

[intro] x4
A  G#m  C#m

[verse 1]
B                   D#m     G#m
I hear the drums echoing tonight
B/F#              A/E
She hears only whispers of some
C#m         G#m  A  G#m C#m
quiet conversa - tion
B                D#m           G#m
She's coming in, twelve thirty flight
        B/F#        A/E
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that
Bsus4            G#m  A  G#m C#m
guide me toward salva - tion
B            D#m               G#m
I stopped an old man along the way
       B/F#         A/E
Hoping to find some old forgotten
Bsus4          G#m    A  G#m C#m
words or ancient melo - dies
B            D#m         G#m
He turned to me as if to say “hurry boy,
     A                  C#m
it's waiting there for you”

[chorus]
F#m           D              A        E
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
F#m                    D
There's nothing that a hundred men or
A               E
more could ever do
F#m          D          A      E
I bless the rains down in  Africa
F#m             D
Gonna take some time to do the
 A              C#m  E  F#m  E/G#
things we never had...

[break] x2
A  G#m  C#m

[verse 2]
B             D#m            G#m
The wild dogs cry out in the night
   B/F#               A/E
As they grow restless longing for some
Bsus4  G#m   A G#m C#m
solitary compa-ny
B           D#m              G#m
I know that I must do what's right
           B/F#        A/E
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like
 Bsus4            G#m     A G#m C#m
Olympus above the Ser - engeti
B         D#m                G#m
I seek to cure what's deep inside
G#m                A                 C#m
Frightened of this thing that I've become

[chorus]
F#m           D              A        E
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
F#m                    D
There's nothing that a hundred men or
A               E
more could ever do
F#m          D          A      E
I bless the rains down in  Africa
F#m             D
Gonna take some time to do the
A              C#m  E  F#m  E/G#
things we never had...

[break] x2
A  G#m  C#m

[interlude]
B    D#m      G#m   B/F#
A/E  Bsus4  G#m  A  G#m  C#m

[bridge]
B   D#m  G#m
            “hurry boy, she's
 A                 C#m
waiting there for you”

[outro]
     F#m          D
It’s gonna take a lot to
         A        E
drag me away from you
F#m                    D
There's nothing that a hundred men or
A               E
more could ever do
F#m          D             A   E
I bless the rains down in Africa
F#m          D             A   E
I bless the rains down in Africa
F#m          D             A   E
I bless the rains down in Africa
F#m          D             A   E
I bless the rains down in Africa
F#m          D             A   E
I bless the rains down in Africa
F#m             D
Gonna take some time to do the
A               C#m  E  F#m  E/G#
things we never had…

[post-outro] x6
A  G#m  C#m
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