IntroGBmVerseAC#mF#m7
I hear the drums echoing tonight
ADEF#m7GBm
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversa --tion
AC#mF#m7
She's coming in, twelve-thirty flight
ADEF#m7GBm
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salva--tion
AC#mF#m7
I stopped an old man along the way
AGEF#m7GBm
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melo-dies
AC#mF#m7
He turned to me as if to say
F#mGBm
Hurry boy its waiting there for you
ChorusEmCGD
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
EmCGD
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
EmCGD
I bless the rains down in Afri-ca
EmCGBmDEmF#mGBm
Gonna take some time to do the things we never haaaaaaaaaave
Interlude between VerseGBmVerseAC#mF#m7
The wild dogs cry out in the night
ADEF#m7GBm
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
AC#mF#m7
I know that I must do what is right
ADEF#m7GBm
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Seren-geti
AC#mF#m7
I seek to cure what's deep inside
F#mGBm
Frightened of this thing that I've become
ChorusEmCGD
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
EmCGD
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
EmCGD
I bless the rains down in Afri-ca
EmCGBmDEmF#mGBm
Gonna take some time to do the things we never haaaaaaaaaave
Interlude between VerseGBm
[Keyboard solo]
AC#mF#m7ADEF#m7GBmAC#mF#m7F#mGBmChorusEmCGD
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
EmCGD
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
EmCGD
I bless the rains down in Afri-ca
EmCGBmDEmF#mGBm
Gonna take some time to do the things we never haaaaaaaaaave
OutroEmCGD
I bless the rains down in Afri-ca
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