A       Am      B       Bm      C       D       Dsus    
<====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  
 |O||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||   
 O|||    O|||    ||OO    |OOO    ||||    OOO|    OO||   
 ||||    ||||    |O||    ||||    |||O    ||||    ||O|   
 ||||    ||||    O|||    O|||    ||||    ||||    ||||   
.||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   
 ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||   

Em      F       F#7     F#m     G       
<====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  
 ||||    ||O|    ||||    |O||    ||||   
 |||O    O|||    ||O|    O|O|    |O|O   
 ||O|    ||||    O|||    ||||    ||O|   
 |O||    ||||    |O|O    ||||    ||||   
.||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   
 ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||   

[Intro]
C Bm Em

C Bm Em

C Bm Em

C Bm Em


[Verse 1]

D                   F#m     Bm
I hear the drums echoing tonight

D/A              C/G           Em         Bm  C  Bm Em
She hears only whispers of some quiet conversa - tion

D                F#m           Bm
She's coming in, twelve thirty flight

        D/A        C/G                  Dsus/A            Bm  C  Bm Em
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me toward salva - tion

D            F#m               Bm
I stopped an old man along the way

       D/A         C/G           Dsus/A          Bm    C  Bm Em
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melo - dies

D            F#m         Bm                  C                  Em
He turned to me as if to say "hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"


[Chorus]

Am           F              C        G
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

Am                    F              C               G
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

Am          F          C      G
I bless the rains down in  Africa

Am             F               C              Em  G  Am  G/B  C
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had...

    C Bm Em

Ooo Ooo

    C Bm Em


[Verse 2]

D             F#m            Bm
The wild dogs cry out in the night

   D/A               C/G              Dsus/A  Bm   C Bm Em
As they grow restless longing for some solitary compa-ny

D           F#m              Bm
I know that I must do what's right

           D/A        C/G         Dsus/A            Bm     C Bm Em
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Ser - engeti

D         F#m                Bm
I seek to cure what's deep inside

Bm                C                 Em
Frightened of this thing that I've become


[Chorus]

Am           F              C        G
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

Am                    F              C               G
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

Am          F          C      G
I bless the rains down in  Africa

Am             F               C              Em  G  Am  G/B  C
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had...

    C Bm Em

Ooo Ooo

    C Bm Em


[Interlude]

D    F#m      Bm   D/A

C/G  Dsus/A  Bm   C  Bm Em


[Bridge]

D   F#7  Bm                   C                 Em
            "hurry boy, she's waiting there for you"


[Outro]

     Am          F               C        G
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

Am                    F              C               G
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

Am          F             C   G
I bless the rains down in Africa

Am          F             C   G
I bless the rains down in Africa

Am          F             C   G
I bless the rains down in Africa

Am          F             C   G
I bless the rains down in Africa

Am          F             C   G
I bless the rains down in Africa

Am             F              C               Em  G  Am  G/B  C
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had...

    C Bm Em

Ooo Ooo

    C Bm Em

 (Repeat and fade)