Africa (LP Version)-The Meters

[00:00.00]Toto.Africa [00:11.48] [00:30.53]I hear the drums echoing tonight [00:34.98]But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation [00:43.18]She's coming in 12:30 flight [00:46.47]The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation [00:55.05]I stopped an old man along the way [00:57.99]Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies [01:05.45]He turned to me as if to say, "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you" [01:15.85]It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you [01:22.17]There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do [01:26.97]I bless the rains down in Africa [01:32.15]Gonna take some time to do the things we never had [01:50.93]The wild dogs cry out in the night [01:53.83]As they grow restless longing for some solitary company [02:02.04]I know that I must do what's right [02:05.22]Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti [02:13.84]I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become [02:24.49]It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you [02:29.63]There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do [02:34.60]I bless the rains down in Africa [02:39.79]Gonna take some time to do the things we never had [03:13.06]Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you [03:19.78]It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you [03:25.10]There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do [03:30.33]I bless the rains down in Africa, I bless the rains down in Africa [03:40.84]I bless the rains down in Africa, I bless the rains down in Africa [03:51.13]I bless the rains down in Africa [03:56.40]Gonna take some time to do the things we never had