A       B       Bsus    C#m     D       D#7     D#m     
<====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  
 |O||    ||||    ||||    OO||    ||||    ||||    |||O   
 O|||    ||OO    ||OO    ||||    OOO|    ||||    ||O|   
 ||||    |O||    ||||    ||||    ||||    OOO|    OO||   
 ||||    O|||    OO||    |||O    ||||    |||O    ||||   
.||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   
 ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||   

E       F#      F#m     G#      G#m     
<====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  
 O|||    |O|O    |O||    ||||    O|||   
 |||O    ||O|    O|O|    ||||    |||O   
 ||||    O|||    ||||    |O|O    |O||   
 |O||    ||||    ||||    ||O|    ||O|   
.||||   .||||   .||||   .O|||   .||||   
 ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||   

[Intro]
A G#m C#m

A G#m C#m

A G#m C#m

A G#m C#m


[Verse 1]

B                   D#m     G#m
I hear the drums echoing tonight

B/F#              A/E           C#m         G#m  A  G#m C#m
She hears only whispers of some quiet conversa - tion

B                D#m           G#m
She's coming in, twelve thirty flight

        B/F#        A/E                  Bsus/F#            G#m  A  G#m C#m
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me toward salva - tion

B            D#m               G#m
I stopped an old man along the way

       B/F#         A/E           Bsus/F#          G#m    A  G#m C#m
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melo - dies

B            D#m         G#m                  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              C#m  E  F#m  E/G#  A
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had...

    A G#m C#m

Ooo Ooo

    A G#m C#m


[Verse 2]

B             D#m            G#m
The wild dogs cry out in the night

   B/F#               A/E              Bsus/F#  G#m   A G#m C#m
As they grow restless longing for some solitary compa-ny

B           D#m              G#m
I know that I must do what's right

           B/F#        A/E         Bsus/F#            G#m     A G#m C#m
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like 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              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              C#m  E  F#m  E/G#  A
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had...

    A G#m C#m

Ooo Ooo

    A G#m C#m


[Interlude]

B    D#m      G#m   B/F#

A/E  Bsus/F#  G#m   A  G#m C#m


[Bridge]

B   D#7  G#m                   A                 C#m
            "hurry boy, she's waiting there for you"


[Outro]

     F#m          D               A        E
It's 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               C#m  E  F#m  E/G#  A
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had...

    A G#m C#m

Ooo Ooo

    A G#m C#m

 (Repeat and fade)