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by Howie Day


I'm just finishing what Adam started.  Hopefully I'm not too far off.

Just like in the original by Todo, there is a motif-like 
part which is basically the intro to the song.  Through 
the second line of a verse he goes into it if you listen.
I'll just put this three chord part in parenthesis and then 
it's just a matter of getting the rhythm down.

Chords (in no apparent order whatsoever)           
                                 
--3-----2-----0-----0-----3-----3-----|
--3-----3-----0-----1-----3-----3-----|
--4-----4-----0-----0-----0-----4-----|
--5-----4-----2-----2-----0-----5—----|
--5-----2-----2-----3-----2-----5-----|
--3-----X-----0-----0-----3-----3-----|


Chorus
               
--0-----0-----3-----2--|
--0-----1-----3-----3--|
--0-----0-----4-----2--|
--2-----2-----5-----0—-|
--2-----3-----5-----0--|
--0-----0-----3-----X--|

***  the spacing of the chords is a result of my laziness...  
don't rely on it...   ;)

                        
I hear the drums echoing tonight                        
                                              (  ) 
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
                        
She's coming in 12:30 flight
                                              (  ) 
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
                        
I stopped an old man along the way
                                              (  ) 
Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies
*                                 *  
He turned to me as if to say, ''Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you''

(this is me agreeing with adam... kinda)

                                       
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
                                                  
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
                           
I bless the rains down in Afr--ica
Em 	        C       G                Bm  D  Em G Bm   <--kinda tricky
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had           Listen & you'll
                                                             know what I 
*                                  *                   mean
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become


It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

I bless the rains down in Afr--ica

Gonna take some time to do the things we never had


Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you


It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

I bless the rains down in Afr--ica
I passed some rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa,
I passed some rains down in Africa

I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

***********Nutshell Recap**************

Verse
  
    (  )

Chorus
       x3