Toto - Africa

Africa [vid] [karaoke] is from the 1982 album Toto IV.

[Verse 1]
[B] I hear the [D#m] drums echoing to[G#m]night
She hears only [A] whispers of some [C#m] quiet conver[G#m]sa[A]tion
[B] She's coming [D#m] in, twelve thirty [G#m] flight
The moonlit wings re[A]flect the stars that [F#] guide me toward sal[G#m]va[A]tion
[B] I stopped an [D#m] old man along the [G#m] way
Hoping to find some [A] old forgotten [F#] words or ancient [G#m] melo[C#m]dies
[B] He turned to [D#m] me as if to [G#m] say "hurry boy, it's [A] waiting there for [C#m] you"

[Chorus]
[F#m] Gonna take a [D] lot to drag me [A] away from [E] you
[F#m]There's nothing that a [D] hundred men or [A] more could ever [E] do
[F#m] I bless the [D] rains down in [A] Afri[E]ca
[F#m] Gonna take some [D] time to do the [A] things we never [C#m] had [E] [F#m] [A]
[A] Ooh [G#m] oh oh [C#m] ooh
[A] Ooh [G#m] oh oh [C#m] ooh
 
[Verse 2]
[B] The wild dogs [D#m] cry out in the [G#m] night
(As) they grow restless [A] longing for some [F#] solitary [G#m] compa[A]ny
[B] I know that I must [D#m] do what's [G#m] right
As sure as Kilimanjaro [A] rises like [F#] Olympus above the Se[G#m]renge[A]ti
[B] I seek to [D#m] cure what's deep in[G#m]side
Frightened of this [A] thing that I've become
 
[Chorus]
 
[Interlude]
[B] [D#m] [G#m] [F#]
[A] [F#] [G#m] [A] [G#m] [C#m]
 
[Bridge]
[B] [D#] [G#m] "hurry boy, she's [A] waiting there for [C#m] you"
 
[Outro]
[F#m] Gonna take a [D] lot to drag me [A] away from [E] you
[F#m]There's nothing that a [D] hundred men or [A] more could ever [E] do
[F#m] I bless the [D] rains down in [A] Afri[E]ca (1)
I bless the rains down in Africa (2)
I bless the rains down in Africa (3)
I bless the rains down in Africa (4)
I bless the rains down in Africa (5)
[F#m] Gonna take some [D] time to do the [A] things we never [C#m] had [E] [F#m] [A]
[A] Ooh [G#m] oh oh [C#m] ooh
[A] Ooh [G#m] oh oh [C#m] ooh
EOF (Jun:2026)