Africa Chords

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Difficulty:	intermediate
Tuning:	E A D G B E
Capo:	no capo

Author joss-metallica [a] 71.

1 contributor total, last edit on Sep 22, 2018

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Africa - Toto
 
G#                   Cm     Fm
I hear the drums echoing tonight 
G#               F#             Bbm         Fm   F#  Bbm
She hears only whispers of some quiet conversa - tion 
G#                Cm           Fm          G#
She's coming in twelve thirty flight   the moonlit winds 
     F#                      Bbm7              Fm   F#  Bbm
     Reflect the stars that guide me toward salva-tion 
G#              Cm             Fm
I stopped an old man along the way 
G#                   F#             Bbm              Fm   F# Bbm
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melo-dies 
G#              C7       Fm                 F#                Bbm
He turned to me as if to say  hurry boy it's waiting there for you 
     Ebm           B               F#       C#
     Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you 
     Ebm                     B             F#             C#
     There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do       MTM 
     Ebm          B              F#   C#
     I bless the rains down in   Africa 
     Ebm             B               F#        Bbm C# Ebm  F# Bbm
     Gonna take some time to do the things we never  had 
 
G#                 Cm         Fm
The wild dogs cry out in the night 
G#            F#                    Bbm            Fm   F#  Bbm
As they grow restless longing for some solitary compa-ny 
G#          Cm               Fm
I know that I must do what's right 
G#                     F#          Bbm                  Fm   F#  Bbm
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti 
     G#         C7               Fm
     I seek to cure what's deep inside 
Fm                 F#               Bbm
Frightened of this thing that I've become 
     Ebm         B             F#       C#
     Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you 
     Ebm                   B             F#             C#
     There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do 
     Ebm        B             F#   C#
     I bless the rains down in   Africa 
     Ebm           B              F#        Bbm C# Ebm  F# Bbm
     Gonna take some time to do the things we never  had 
 
G#   Cm   Fm   G#   F#   Bbm   Fm    F# ^ Bbm
G#   C7     Fm             F#              Bbm
               hurry boy it's waiting there for you 
     Ebm         B             F#       C#
     Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you 
     Ebm                   B             F#             C#
     There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do 
     Ebm        B             F#   C#
     I bless the rains down in   Africa 
 
 
 Ebm        B             F#   C#
     I bless the rains down in   Africa 
     Ebm        B             F#   C#
     I bless the rains down in   Africa 
     Ebm        B             F#   C#
     I bless the rains down in   Africa 
     Ebm        B             F#   C#
     I bless the rains down in   Africa 
     Ebm           B              F#        Bbm C# Ebm  F# Bbm
     Gonna take some time to do the things we never  had 
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Africa – Toto

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I find this version fits my voice better than the others.