Africa

[Intro]
Cm

[Pre-Verse]
Ab Gm Cm Ab Gm Cm

[Verse 1]
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  I hear the drums echoing tonight,
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But she heards only whispers of some quiet conversation.
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  She's coming in twelve thirty flight,
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The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards
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salvation.
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  I stopped an old man along the way,
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Hopng to find some old forgotten words  or ancient
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melodies.
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  He turned to me as if to say

[Chorus]
"Hurry, boy,
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it's waiting there for you."
Fm                  Db              Ab           Eb
  It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you,
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  There's nothing that a hundred men or more  could ever
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do,
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  I bless the rains  down in Africa.
Fm                    Db          Ab              Cm  Eb Fm Eb
  Gonna take some time  to do the things we never had.

[Pre-Verse]
Ab Gm Cm Ab Gm Cm

[Verse 2]
Bb              F                    Gm7
  The wild dogs cry out in the night,
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As they grow restless longing for some solitary company.
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  I know that I must do what's right
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Sure as Kilimangaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
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  I seek to cure what's deep inside.

[Chorus]
                  Ab
Fightened of this thing that I've become.
Gm Cm
Fm                  Db              Ab           Eb
  It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you,
Fm                       Db                 Ab
  There's nothing that a hundred men or more  could ever
   Eb
do,
Fm                 Db        Ab     Eb
  I bless the rains  down in Africa.
Fm                    Db          Ab              Cm  Eb Fm Eb
  Gonna take some time  to do the things we never had.

[Pre-Solo]
Ab Gm Cm Ab Gm Cm

[Solo]
Bb F Gm7 Bb Ab Eb Gm7
Ab Gm Cm Bb F

[Chorus]
Gm7
   "Hurry, boy,
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it's waiting there for you."
Fm                  Db              Ab           Eb
  It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you,
Fm                       Db                 Ab
  There's nothing that a hundred men or more  could ever
   Eb
do,
Fm                 Db        Ab     Eb
  I bless the rains  down in Africa.
Fm                 Db        Ab     Cm
  I bless the rains  down in Africa.
Fm                 Db        Ab     Eb
  I bless the rains  down in Africa.
Fm                 Db        Ab     Eb
  I bless the rains  down in Africa.
Fm                 Db        Ab     Eb
  I bless the rains  down in Africa.
Fm                    Db          Ab              Cm  Eb Fm Eb
  Gonna take some time  to do the things we never had.

[Outro]
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