{"id":30952,"date":"2026-05-16T21:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/?p=30952"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:11:26","slug":"africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/africa\/","title":{"rendered":"xxx Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Toto<\/p>\n<p>Chords provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moselele.co.uk\">Moselele<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[F] |||||| [Am] | x4<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G] I hear the drums [Bm] echoin\u2019 tonight [Em]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G] She has only [F] whispers of some [Am] quiet conver[Em]sa-[F]tion [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G] She&#8217;s coming [Bm] in twelve thirty [Em] flight the [G] moonlight winds<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Re[F]flect the stars that [Am7] guide me toward sal[Em]va-[F]tion [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G] I stopped an [Bm] old man along the [Em] way<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G] Hoping to find some [F] old forgotten [Am] words or ancient [Em]melo-[F]dies [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G] He turned to [Bm] me as if to [Em] say &#8220;hurry boy she&#8217;s [F] waiting there for [Am] you&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] Gonna take a [Bb] lot to drag me aw[F]ay from [C] you<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] There&#8217;s nothing that a [Bb] hundred men or [F] more could ever [C] do<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] I bless the [Bb] rains down in [F] Afri[C]ca<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] Gonna take some [Bb] time to do the [F] things we never [Am] ha-[C]-a-[Dm] \u2013ad<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[C]Ooh hoo [F] [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G] The wild dogs [Bm] cry out in the [Em] night<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As [G] they grow restless [F] longing for some [Am] solitary [Em] compa-[F]ny [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G] I know that [Bm] I must do what&#8217;s [Em] right<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sure as [G] Kilimanjaro [F] rises like O- [Am] -lympus above the [Em]Serenge-[F]ti [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G] I seek to [Bm] cure what&#8217;s deep in-[Em]-side<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Em] Frightened of this [F] thing that I&#8217;ve bec[Am]ome[Dm] Gonna take a [Bb] lot to drag me aw[F]ay from [C] you<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] There&#8217;s nothing that a [Bb] hundred men or [F] more could ever [C] do<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] I bless the [Bb] rains down in [F] Afri[C]ca<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] Gonna take some [Bb] time to do the [F] things we never [Am] ha-[C]-a-[Dm] \u2013ad<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[C]Ooh [F] hoo [F] [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G] [Bm] [Em] [G] [F] [Am] [Em] [F] [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G] [Bm] [Em] \u201churry boy she\u2019s [F] waiting there for [Am] you&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] Gonna take a [Bb] lot to drag me aw[F]ay from [C] you<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] There&#8217;s nothing that a [Bb] hundred men or [F] more could ever [C] do<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] I bless the [Bb] rains down in [F] Afri[C]ca<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] I bless the [Bb] rains down in [F] Afri[C]ca (I bless the rains)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] I bless the [Bb] rains down in [F] Afri[C]ca (ooooh the rains)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] I bless the [Bb] rains down in [F] Afri[C]ca<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] I bless the [Bb] rains down in [F] Afri[C]ca<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] Gonna take some [Bb] time to do the [F] things we never [Am] ha-[C]-a-[Dm] \u2013ad<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[C]&#8212; [F] [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[F] |||||| [Am] | x3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Toto Chords provided by Moselele [F] |||||| [Am] | x4 [G] I hear the drums [Bm] echoin\u2019 tonight [Em] [G] She has only [F] whispers of some [Am] quiet conver[Em]sa-[F]tion [Am] [G] She&#8217;s coming [Bm] in twelve thirty [Em] flight the [G] moonlight winds Re[F]flect the stars that [Am7] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">xxx Africa<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moselele-credits","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31249,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30952\/revisions\/31249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}