Africa
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I hear the drums echoin' to-night
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She has only whispers of some quiet conversa --- tion.
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She's coming in twelve thirty flight
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The moonlight winds reflect the stars that guide me toward salva --- tion.
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I stopped an old man along the way
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Hoping to find some old forgotten words of ancient me--lo-dies.
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He turned to me as if to say,"Hurry boy it's waiting there for you."
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Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you,
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There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do.
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I bless the rains down in Africa,
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Gonna take some time to do the things we never ha --d.
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The wild dogs cry out in the night
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As they grow restless wlonging for some solitary co --
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pany.
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I know that I must do what's right
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Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serenge - ti.
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I seek to cure what's deep inside, Frightened of this thing that I've become.
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Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you,
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There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do.
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I bless the rains down in Africa,
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Gonna take some time to do the things we never ha --d.
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"Hurry boy it's waiting there for you."
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Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you,
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There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do.
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I bless the rains down in Africa,
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I bless the rains down in Africa
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I bless the rains down in Africa
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I bless the rains down in Africa
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I bless the rains down in Africa
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Gonna take some time to do the things we never ha --d.
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