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Intro
A C#m A C#m A C#m A C#m C#m7
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Verse
B D#m7 G#m7
I hear the drums echoing tonight
B A A
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation ■
B D#m7 G#m7
She's coming in twelve:thirty flight
A G#m A C#m7
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation ■ ■
B D#m7 G#m7
I stopped an old man along the way
B A E A
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies ■
B D#m G#m7
He turned to me as if to say
G#m A
Hurry boy it's waiting there for you
C#m
It's ■
Chorus
F#m D A E
gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
F#m D A E F#m
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do ■
D A E F#m
I bless the rains down in Africa ■
D A
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
C#m E F#m A C#m A C#m7
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Verse
B D#m7 G#m7
The wild dogs cry out in the night
G#m A E
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
G#m A C#m B
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D#m7 G#m7
I know that I must do what's right
G#m F#m7 E A B
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti ■ ■
D#m G#m A
I seek to cure what's deep inside frightened of this thing that I've become
C#m C#m7
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Chorus
F#m D A E
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
F#m D A E F#m
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do ■
D A E F#m
I bless the rains down in Africa ■
D A C#m
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
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Bridge
A C#m A C#m7 B D#m7 G#m7 A F#m7 G#m7 A AM7 C#m7
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B D#m7 G#m7
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G#m7 A
Hurry boy she's waiting there for you
C#m C#m
It's ■
Chorus
F#m D A E
gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
F#m D A E F#m
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do ■
D A E F#m
I bless the rains down in ■ Africa ■ ■
D A E
I bless the rains down in Africa
F#m D A E F#m
I ■ bless the rains down in ■ Africa ■
D A E F#m
I bless the rains down in Africa ■
D A E F#m
I bless the rains down in Africa ■
D A C#m E F#m
Gonna take some time to do the things we never ■ ■ had
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Outro
A C#m A C#m A C#m C#m7 A C#m C#m7 C#m A C#m
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C#m7 A C#m
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End
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