Tojo Hoodoo Gurus
Event: Dig It Up! at Enmore Theatre, Sydney (22nd April, 2013)
Tempo: 12|8
Style: Oz Punk-Rock
Tuning: Standard
Chords:
EADGBe
G: 355433
C: 332010
D: XX0232
F: 133211
A: 577655
G#: 466544
F#: 244322
SPOKEN:
"Now, you graduate to the four-letter word songs!__"
INTRO:(Lead Riff over)
|G F G |A G# G F# |
VERSE 1:
[G]Tracy. Tracy was angry.
[F]A bad [G]mood. [F]A bad [G]mood.
[G]I told her, "It's an ill wind.
[F]Blows no [G]good. [F]Blows no [G]good."
NC
"Then she told me:"
CHORUS 1:
[F]"Tojo [G]never [A]made it.[G#] [G] [F#]
[F]Tojo [G]never [A]made it to [G]Darwin."
CHORUS:
[F]"Tojo [G]never [A]made it.[G#] [G] [F#]
[F]Tojo [G]never [A]made it to [G]Darwin."
VERSE 2:
[G]I said, "Tracy, won't you listen - this is Christmas!
[F]Don't [G]you go. [F]Don't [G]you go."
[G]She said, "David, believe me, I wouldn't miss this for the world,
[F]I've got [G]to blow. [F]I've got [G]to blow."
G to F (Muted Slide)
"She said again:"
CHORUS 2:
[F]"Tojo [G]never [A]made it.[G#] [G] [F#]
[F]Tojo [G]never [A]made it to [G]Darwin."
[F]"Tojo [G]never [A]made it.[G#] [G] [F#]
[F]Tojo [G]never [A]made it to [G]Darwin."
BRIDGE:
C to F (6 X)
VERSE 3:
[C]Now she's gone, gone, gone, just like the wind.
[F]I just [G]sigh, [F]I just [G]cried,
[C]But I'm dreaming that I'm gleam-ing
[F]In her [G]eye, i[F]n her e[G]ye.
(Plucked G on 12th fret) (Wahed & Fuzzed)
"But I'll always hear:"
CHORUS 2:
[F]"Tojo [G]never [A]made it.[G#] [G] [F#]
[F]Tojo [G]never [A]made it to [G]Darwin."
[F]"Tojo [G]never [A]made it.[G#] [G] [F#]
[F]Tojo [G]never [A]made it t[G-G#-G]o ___ [A-Bb-A] ___ [G]Darwin."
CODA:
D (Muted)
"That year, Santa never came." (Silent whisper)
SPOKEN:
"I'm sorry myself that it doesn't go on for longer. There was only a couple more left!"
[(End)]
Notes.
1."Tojo" was an 'answer song' to an Australian hit of a few years earlier, "Santa Never
Made it Into Darwin" which had been released to raise money for the victims of Cyclone
Tracy which had almost destroyed Darwin on Christmas Eve, 1975 (sic). During World War
II the Japanese army invaded New Guinea but failed to reach Australia thanks to the heroic
resistance however Darwin was bombed heavily and often.' - Dave Faulkner.
2.It was similar to the attack on Pearl Harbor in that it was a successful aerial
surprise attack on a naval target that came as a great shock to the attacked nation. Although
Darwin was a less significant military target, more bombs were dropped there than on
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