Album: Toto IV (1982)

[Chords]
  224442
   002220

[Intro]
  
  
  
  

[Verse 1]
             
I hear the dru

           
ms echoing ton


ight
          
She hears only

           
 whispers of s

           
ome quiet conv

       
ersa - tion
             
She's coming i

           
n, twelve thir

   
ty flight
          
The moonlit wi

           
ngs reflect th

             
e stars that g

        
uide me toward

         
 salva - tion
            
I stopped an o

#            
ld man along t

   
he way
          
Hoping to find

           
 some old forg

       
otten words or

           
 ancient melo 

     
- dies
            
He turned to m

#         
e as if to say

              
 “hurry boy, i

             
t's waiting th

         
ere for you”

[Chorus]
           
Gonna take a l

             
ot to drag me 

         
away from you
           
There's nothin

             
g that a hundr

             
ed men or more

            
 could ever do
          
I bless the ra

             
ins down in  A

   
frica
           
Gonna take som

             
e time to do t

             
he things we n

             
ever had...
      
Ooo Ooo
      

[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
           
As sure as Kil

#          
imanjaro rises

       
 like Olympus 

            
above the Ser 

       
- engeti
          
I seek to cure

              
 what's deep i

 
nside
           
Frightened of 

             
this thing tha

         
t I've become

[Chorus]
           
Gonna take a l

             
ot to drag me 

         
away from you
           
There's nothin

             
g that a hundr

             
ed men or more

            
 could ever do
          
I bless the ra

             
ins down in  A

   
frica
           
Gonna take som

             
e time to do t

             
he things we n

             
ever had...
      
Ooo Ooo
      

[Interlude]
                
          

[Bridge]
       
            “h

              
urry boy, she'

             
s waiting ther

       
e for you”

[Outro]
           
It’s gonna tak

             
e a lot to dra

             
g me away from

 
 you
           
There's nothin

             
g that a hundr

             
ed men or more

            
 could ever do
          
I bless the ra

             
ins down in Af

   
rica
          
I bless the ra

             
ins down in Af

   
rica
          
I bless the ra

             
ins down in Af

   
rica
          
I bless the ra

             
ins down in Af

   
rica
          
I bless the ra

             
ins down in Af

   
rica
           
Gonna take som

             
e time to do t

             
he things we n

             
ever had…
      
Ooo Ooo
      
 (Repeat and f

ade)