Africa chords by Toto GC Surat”
com
Tuning: EADGBE
key: 8
Album: Toto IV (1982)
[Chords]
B/FH 224442
AIE 002220
[intro]
A Gm C#m
A G#m C#m
A Gém C#m
A Gtm C#m
[verse 1]
B Dim Gm
T hear the drums echoing tonight
B/Fe AE c#m Gin A Gtm C#m
She hears only whispers of some quiet conversa - tion
8 Dém Gém
She's coming in, twelve thirty flight
B/FH AE c#n7 Gim A Gim C#m
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me toward salva-tion
8 Dem cin
I stopped an old man along the way
B/FH AE cen Gim A Gm Cem
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melo-dies
8 Dem Gen A C#m
He turned to me as if to say “hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"
[Chorus]
Fin D A E
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
Fen D A E
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
Fin D AE
I bless the rains down in Africa
Fén D a cm E F#m
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had...
A Gtm C#m
000 000
A Gtm C#m
[Verse 2]
B bem Gem
The wild dogs cry out in the night
B/Fe Ale cén Gém A Gém C#m
As they grow restless longing for some solitary compa-ny
B Dem im
I know that I must do what's right
B/Fe ATE C#m Gin A Gm C#m
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
B bem cen
I seek to cure what's deep inside
Page 2Gem A C#m
Frightened of this thing that I've become
[Chorus]
Fem D A E
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
Fin D A E
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
Fen D AE
I bless the rains down in Africa
Fin D a C#m E F#m
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had.
A Gtm C#m
000 000
A Gém Cén
[interlude]
Btn G#m
BA C#m Gin A Gm C#m
[Bridge]
B D#7 G#m A C#m
“hurry boy, she's waiting there for you"
[Outro/Chorus]}
Fem D A E
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
Fin D Aa E
There's nothing that @ hundred men or more could ever do
Fen D AE
I bless the rains down in Africa
Fén D AE
I bless the rains down in Africa
Fin D AE
I bless the rains down in Africa
Fén D AE
I bless the rains down in Africa
Fén D AE
I bless the rains down in Africa
Fén D A C#m E F#m
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had..
A Gtm C#m
000 000
(repeat fading)
A Gtm C#m
Page 202