Songbook

Africa

By Toto

popharmonies

[Intro]
A C#m
A C#m
A C#m
A C#m

[Verse 1]
B                   Ebm     Abm
I hear the drums echoing tonight
B                 A             C#m         Abm   A  C#m
She hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
B                Ebm           Abm          B
She's coming in twelve thirty flight   the moonlit wings
A                      C#m7              Abm   A  C#m
Reflect the stars that guide me toward salva-tion
B              Ebm             Abm
I stopped an old man along the way
B                    A             C#m              Abm   A C#m
Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melo-dies
B              Ebm       Abm                 A                 C#m
He turned to me as if to say hurry boy, 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             A               E
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
F#m         D             A   E
I bless the rains down in Africa
F#m             D              A
Gonna take some time to do the things we never

C#m    E    F#m E
haaaaaaaaaaaad

A C#m
A C#m

[Verse 2]
B             Ebm            Abm
The wild dogs cry out in the night
   B                  A                C#m      Abm   A  C#m
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
B           Ebm              Abm
I know that I must do what's right
           B           A          C#m               Abm     A  C#m
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
B         Ebm                Abm
I seek to cure what's deep inside
Abm                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             A             E
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
F#m         D             A   E
I bless the rains down in Africa
F#m             D              A
Gonna take some time to do the things we never

C#m    E    F#m E
haaaaaaaaaaaad

A C#m
A C#m

[Interlude]
B   Ebm   Abm
B   A   C#m   Abm    A   C#m

[Bridge]
B  Eb7  Abm                 A                    C#m
            Hurry boy, 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             A             E
There's nothing that a hundred men or 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              A
Gonna take some time to do the things we never

C#m    E    F#m E
haaaaaaaaaaaad

[Outro]
A C#m
A C#m