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This document is the lyrics to the song "Africa" by Toto. It tells the story of a soprano singer hearing the drums of Africa calling her home on the night of her flight. She recalls conversations with an old man who encouraged her to return. The lyrics celebrate the beauty of Africa and express a longing to experience the things one never had by returning to the motherland.
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Africa

This document is the lyrics to the song "Africa" by Toto. It tells the story of a soprano singer hearing the drums of Africa calling her home on the night of her flight. She recalls conversations with an old man who encouraged her to return. The lyrics celebrate the beauty of Africa and express a longing to experience the things one never had by returning to the motherland.
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Africa- Soprano

 4          
 4          
Doodoo doo doo doo doodoo bah
13
    
         
       
Doodoo doo doo doo doo doo bah I hear the drums
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            
                   
ech o ing to night but she hears onl ly whis pers of some qui et con ver sa
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    
                  
      
tion She's com in in twelve thir ty flight her
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     
                  
moon lit wings re flect the stars that guide me to wards sal va tion
35
    
    
               
I stopped an old man a long the way hop ing to find some
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         
    

        
  
long for got ten words or an cient mel o dies He turned to me
45
      
                
    

as if to say Hur ry boy, it's wait ing there for you oo
52
 
                   

It's gon na take a lot to drive me a way from you
56
  
                    
   
There's noth ing that a hun dred men or more couldev er do
60
 
                      
I bless the rains down in Af ri ca . Gon na take some time
65
          
  
            
      
to do the things we ne ver had . Doodoo doo doo doo
71 To Coda
    
     
              
doo doo bah Doodoo doo doo doo doo doo bah The wild dogs
79
    
                    
cry out in the night as they grow rest less long ing for sol i tar y
84
      
             
         
com pan y I know that I must do what's right sure as
90
     
                     
kil i man ja ro ris es like lymp us a bove the Ser en ge ti
96
                
         
I seek to cure what's deep in side fright ened of this thing that I've be come
101 D.C. al Coda 
   
                    
oo oo Dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah
105
      
       
     
    
dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah la dah dah dah dah dah

2
108
3 3
        
          

dah dah 3
dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah.

112
      
                

dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah Hur ry boy, it's

116
    
                       

wait ing there for you oo It's gon na take a lot to drive me a

123
   
                 
 
way from you There's noth ing that a hun dred men or more

127
      
                           
 
couldev er do I bless the rains down in A fric a

133
               

            
 
Gon na take some time to do the things we ne ver had Oo,

139
  
        
 
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo bah

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