From: andrew0627@aol.com email me if you find something wrong.

This is a cross between Toto and Howie Day. Great song on acoustic with finger picking
and strumming. The verses are Toto and the chorus is Howie Day, I think it just sounds
amazing.

Toto - Africa


[Intro]

  (x4)


[Verse 1]

             
I hear the dru

           
ms echoin toni


ght
             
She has only w

             
hispers of som

           
e quiet conver

     
sa - tion
             
She's coming i

           
n twelve thirt

            
hy flight   th

 
e moolight win

ds
             
Reflect the st

           
ars that guide

            
 me toward sal

     
va-tion
             
I stopped an o

            
ld man along t

  
he way
                                               
   
Hoping to find

 some old forg

otten words of

 ancient melo-

dies
                                               
       
He turned to m

e as if to say

  hurry boy it

's waiting the

re for you


[Hook]

            
     Gonna tak

             
e a lot to dra

            
g me away from

  
 you
            
     There's n

              
othing that a 

             
hundred men or

            
 more could ev

 
er do
            
     I bless t

             
he rains down 

        
in   Africa
                                 *              
      
     Gonna tak

e some time to

 do the things

 we never  had

[Verse 2]

             
The wild dogs 

            
cry out in the

 
 night
            
As they grow r

              
estless longin

            
g for some sol

          
itary compa-ny
           
I know that I 

              
must do what's


 right
                                                 
    
Sure as kilima

ngiaro rises l

ike Olympus ab

ove the serang

et-ti
             
     I seek to

            
 cure what's d

      
eep inside
            
Frightened of 

             
this thing tha

        
t I've become


[Hook]

            
     Gonna tak

             
e a lot to dra

            
g me away from

   
 you
            
     There's n

              
othing that a 

             
hundred men or

            
 more could ev

 
er do
            
     I bless t

             
he rains down 

        
in   Africa
                                 *              
      
     Gonna tak

e some time to

 do the things

 we never  had

                  
     / 
         
              

              
 hurry boy it'

             
s waiting ther

     
e for you

[Hook]

            
     Gonna tak

             
e a lot to dra

            
g me away from

  
 you
            
     There's n

              
othing that a 

             
hundred men or

            
 more could ev

    
er do
            
     I bless t

             
he rains down 

       
in   Africa
            
     I bless t

             
he rains down 

       
in   Africa
            
     I bless t

             
he rains down 

       
in   Africa
            
     I bless t

             
he rains down 

       
in   Africa
            
     I bless t

             
he rains down 

       
in   Africa
                                   *             
      
     Gonna tak

 
e some time to

 do the things

 we never  had


Chords:
          
e|-----0-0--0-
B|-----0-0--1-
G|-----1-0--0-
D|-----2-2--2-
A|-----2-2--3-
E|-----x-0--x-

    
-3-3-3-0---2-|
-3-3-3-3---3-|
-0-3-x-2---2-|
-0-5-2-0---0-|
-2-5-3-x---x-|
-3-3-3-x---x-|