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Tojo Chords
Version #1
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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     G      F     G
A bad mood.  A bad mood.
G
I told her, "It's an ill wind.
F        G      F        G
Blows no good.  Blows no good."

NC
"Then she told me:"

CHORUS 1:
F     G      A       G#  G  F#
"Tojo never  made it.
F     G      A           G
Tojo  never  made it to  Darwin."
CHORUS:
F     G      A       G#  G  F#
"Tojo never  made it.
F     G      A           G
Tojo  never  made it to  Darwin."


VERSE 2:
G
I said, "Tracy, won't you listen - this is Christmas!
F     G        F     G
Don't you go.  Don't you go."
G
She said, "David, believe me, I wouldn't miss this for the world,
F        G         F        G
I've got to blow.  I've got to blow."


G to F (Muted Slide)
"She said again:"

CHORUS 2:
F     G      A       G#  G  F#
"Tojo never  made it.
F     G      A           G
Tojo  never  made it to  Darwin."
F     G      A       G#  G  F#
"Tojo never  made it.
F     G      A           G
Tojo  never  made it to  Darwin."


BRIDGE:
C to F   (6 X)


VERSE 3:
C
Now she's gone, gone, gone, just like the wind.
F      G     F      G
I just sigh, I just cried,
C
But I'm dreaming that I'm gleam-ing
F      G     F      G
In her eye, in her eye.


(Plucked G on 12th fret) [Wahed & Fuzzed]
"But I'll always hear:"

CHORUS 2:
F     G      A       G#  G  F#
"Tojo never  made it.
F     G      A           G
Tojo  never  made it to  Darwin."
F     G      A       G#  G  F#
"Tojo never  made it.
F     G      A        G-G#-G A-Bb-A G
Tojo  never  made it to  ___  ___   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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