A       B       Bm      C#      C#m     D       E       
<====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  <====>  
 |O||    ||||    ||||    OOO|    OO||    ||||    O|||   
 O|||    ||OO    |OOO    ||||    ||||    OOO|    |||O   
 ||||    |O||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||   
 ||||    O|||    O|||    |||O    |||O    ||||    |O||   
.||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   
 ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||    ||||   

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

[Intro]
D C#m F#m

D C#m F#m

D C#m F#m

D C#m F#m


[Verse 1]

E                   G#m     C#m
I hear the drums echoing tonight

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

E                G#m           C#m
She's coming in, twelve thirty flight

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

E            G#m               C#m
I stopped an old man along the way

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

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


[Chorus]

Bm           G              D        A
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

Bm                    G              D               A
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

Bm          G          D      A
I bless the rains down in  Africa

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

    D C#m F#m

Ooo Ooo

    D C#m F#m


[Verse 2]

E             G#m            C#m
The wild dogs cry out in the night

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

E           G#m              C#m
I know that I must do what's right

           E/B        D/A         Esus/B            C#m     D C#m F#m
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Ser - engeti

E         G#m                C#m
I seek to cure what's deep inside

C#m                D                 F#m
Frightened of this thing that I've become


[Chorus]

Bm           G              D        A
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

Bm                    G              D               A
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

Bm          G          D      A
I bless the rains down in  Africa

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

    D C#m F#m

Ooo Ooo

    D C#m F#m


[Interlude]

E    G#m      C#m   E/B

D/A  Esus/B  C#m   D  C#m F#m


[Bridge]

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


[Outro]

     Bm          G               D        A
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

Bm                    G              D               A
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

Bm          G             D   A
I bless the rains down in Africa

Bm          G             D   A
I bless the rains down in Africa

Bm          G             D   A
I bless the rains down in Africa

Bm          G             D   A
I bless the rains down in Africa

Bm          G             D   A
I bless the rains down in Africa

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

    D C#m F#m

Ooo Ooo

    D C#m F#m

 (Repeat and fade)