Chords for Santa Never Made it to Darwin Bill & Boyd

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[E] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
On Christmas Eve of 74, _
[F#m] the warning sounded out _ _
[B] On all the broadcast _ stations, [A]
a great storm was [E] near about _
_ _ _ The boys and girls asleep in bed, [F#m] tomorrow was their day
[F#] _ [B] Their mums and dads all prayed the [A] mighty storm would [E] turn away _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ Sander [B] never made it [E] into Darwin _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ Disaster struck [B] at dawn on [E] Christmas Day
_ _ _ Sander [A] _ _ _ [B] never made it [E] into [G#m] Darwin
_ [C#m] A [E] _ _
[F#m] big wind [B] came and blew the [E] town away _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Christmas morning was a nightmare [F#m] as cyclone Tracy struck _
[B] It ripped apart the buildings [A] like an atom [E] bomb had struck _
_ _ _ _ _ Twisted iron _ girders [F#m] and it _ flattened all the _ trees
The [B] might of such a _ cyclone [A] must be seen to be [E] _ believed _ _ _ _ _
[A] Sander never [B] made it [E] into Darwin _ _ _ _ _
[A] Disaster struck at [B] dawn on Christmas [E] _ Day _ _ _ _ _
[A] Sander never [B] made it into [E] Darwin
_ _ [C#m] A _ _
[F#m] big wind came [B] and blew the [E] town _ away
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _
[C#m] Many boats put out to [G#m] sea, very few _ _ returned _
[A] Most were found [G#m] in other rocks [F#] or in deep seas _ [A] _ _ [F#] _ _
_ overturned
_ [E] Australia was shocked and _ saddened [F#m] as the news came through
_ _ [B] _ _ Devastated city, _ [A] it must be built [E] anew
_ For _ _ _ _ suffering and heartbreak [F#m] to happen in this way
[B] A natural _ _ disaster _
[A] _ come on [E] Christmas Day _
_ _ Sander [A] _ _ _
[B] never made it [E] into Darwin _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ Disaster struck [B] at dawn on [E] Christmas _ Day
_ _ [A] _ _ _ Sander [B] never made it [E] into Darwin
[G#m] _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ [F#m] A big wind [B] came and blew the [E] town _ away
_ _ _ _ [A] _ Sander [B] never made it [E] into Darwin _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ Disaster struck [B] at dawn on [E] Christmas _ Day
_ _ _ _ [A] _ Sander [B] never made it [E] into [G#m] Darwin _
[C#m] _ [G#m] A _ [F#m] big wind [B] came and blew the [E] town away _
[C#m] _ _ [E] _ [F#m] A big [N] wind