A#      A#sus   C#      Cm      D#      D7      Dm      
<====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  
 ||OO    ||OO    OOO|    ||||    |||O    ||||    ||O|   
 |O||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    OOO|    OO||   
 O|||    OO||    ||||    |OOO    |OO|    |||O    ||||   
 ||||    ||||    |||O    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||   
.||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   
 ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||   

F       Fm      G       G#      Gm      
<====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  
 ||O|    O|O|    ||||    ||||    |||O   
 O|||    ||||    |O|O    ||||    |O||   
 ||||    |||O    ||O|    |O|O    ||O|   
 ||||    ||||    ||||    ||O|    ||||   
.||||   .||||   .||||   .O|||   .||||   
 ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||   

[Intro]
G# Gm Cm

G# Gm Cm

G# Gm Cm

G# Gm Cm


[Verse 1]

A#                   Dm     Gm
I hear the drums echoing tonight

A#/F              G#/D#           Cm         Gm  G#  Gm Cm
She hears only whispers of some quiet conversa - tion

A#                Dm           Gm
She's coming in, twelve thirty flight

        A#/F        G#/D#                  A#sus/F            Gm  G#  Gm Cm
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me toward salva - tion

A#            Dm               Gm
I stopped an old man along the way

       A#/F         G#/D#           A#sus/F          Gm    G#  Gm Cm
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melo - dies

A#            Dm         Gm                  G#                  Cm
He turned to me as if to say "hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"


[Chorus]

Fm           C#              G#        D#
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

Fm                    C#              G#               D#
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

Fm          C#          G#      D#
I bless the rains down in  Africa

Fm             C#               G#              Cm  D#  Fm  D#/G  G#
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had...

    G# Gm Cm

Ooo Ooo

    G# Gm Cm


[Verse 2]

A#             Dm            Gm
The wild dogs cry out in the night

   A#/F               G#/D#              A#sus/F  Gm   G# Gm Cm
As they grow restless longing for some solitary compa-ny

A#           Dm              Gm
I know that I must do what's right

           A#/F        G#/D#         A#sus/F            Gm     G# Gm Cm
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Ser - engeti

A#         Dm                Gm
I seek to cure what's deep inside

Gm                G#                 Cm
Frightened of this thing that I've become


[Chorus]

Fm           C#              G#        D#
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

Fm                    C#              G#               D#
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

Fm          C#          G#      D#
I bless the rains down in  Africa

Fm             C#               G#              Cm  D#  Fm  D#/G  G#
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had...

    G# Gm Cm

Ooo Ooo

    G# Gm Cm


[Interlude]

A#    Dm      Gm   A#/F

G#/D#  A#sus/F  Gm   G#  Gm Cm


[Bridge]

A#   D7  Gm                   G#                 Cm
            "hurry boy, she's waiting there for you"


[Outro]

     Fm          C#               G#        D#
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

Fm                    C#              G#               D#
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

Fm          C#             G#   D#
I bless the rains down in Africa

Fm          C#             G#   D#
I bless the rains down in Africa

Fm          C#             G#   D#
I bless the rains down in Africa

Fm          C#             G#   D#
I bless the rains down in Africa

Fm          C#             G#   D#
I bless the rains down in Africa

Fm             C#              G#               Cm  D#  Fm  D#/G  G#
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had...

    G# Gm Cm

Ooo Ooo

    G# Gm Cm

 (Repeat and fade)