Africa

Verse           Chorus
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  G*    D
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B|3-----3--| 
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G*                       Bm      
I hear the drums echoing tonight
    G*  Bm

But she hears only whispers of some 
quiet conversation
She's coming in 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars 
that guide me towards salvation
G*                       Bm      
I stopped an old man along the 
    G*  Bm
way
G*                       Bm      
Hoping to find some long 
    G*  Bm
forgotten words or ancient melodies
G*                       Bm
He turned to me as if to say, 
          G*  Bm
''Hurry boy, it's waiting there for 
you''

Em              C                
It's gonna take a lot to drag me 
G         D
away from you
Em                     C         
There's nothing that a hundred 
     G               D
men or more could ever do
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Em          C             G    D
I bless the rains down in Afr--ica
Em              C           
Gonna take some time to do the 
   G               D
things we never had

G*                           Bm  
The wild dogs cry out in the 
     G*  Bm
night
As they grow restless longing for 
some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like 
Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, 
frightened of this thing that I've 
become

Em              C                
It's gonna take a lot to drag me 
G         D
away from you
Em                     C         
There's nothing that a hundred 
     G               D
men or more could ever do
Em          C             G    D
I bless the rains down in Afr--ica
Em              C           
Gonna take some time to do the 
   G               D
things we never had

G*                                 
Hurry boy, she's waiting there for 
Bm      G*  Bm
you

Em              C                
It's gonna take a lot to drag me 
G         D
away from you
Em                     C         
There's nothing that a hundred 
     G               D
men or more could ever do
Em          C             G    D
I bless the rains down in Afr--ica
I passed some rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa,
I passed some rains down in Africa