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Artist: Hoodoo Gurus
Song:   Tojo [Live]
Album:  Tojo - single (1983) & Stoneage Romeos - LP (1984)
Event:  Dig It Up! at Enmore Theatre, Sydney (22nd April, 2013)
URL:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgpqGRJVdVU;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tojo_%28song%29
Tempo:  12|8
Style:  Oz Punk-Rock
Tuning: Standard

Chords:
        EADGBe
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:      332010
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SPOKEN:
"Now, you graduate to the four-letter word songs!__"


INTRO:(Lead Riff over)
|    |       |


VERSE 1:

Tracy. Tracy w

as angry.
           
A bad mood.  A

     
 bad mood.

I told her, "I

t's an ill win

d.
            
Blows no good.

          
  Blows no goo

d."

NC
"Then she told me:"

CHORUS 1:
           
"Tojo never  m

           
ade it.
           
Tojo  never  m

           
ade it to  Dar

win."
CHORUS:
           
"Tojo never  m

           
ade it.
           
Tojo  never  m

           
ade it to  Dar

win."


VERSE 2:

I said, "Tracy

, won't you li

sten - this is

 Christmas!
            
Don't you go. 

      
 Don't you go.

"

She said, "Dav

id, believe me

, I wouldn't m

iss this for t

he world,
            
I've got to bl

             
ow.  I've got 


to blow."


   ( 
"She said agai


n:"

CHORUS 2:
           
"Tojo never  m

           
ade it.
           
Tojo  never  m

           
ade it to  Dar

win."
           
"Tojo never  m

           
ade it.
           
Tojo  never  m

           
ade it to  Dar

win."


BRIDGE:
 to    (6 X)


VERSE 3:

Now she's gone

, gone, gone, 

just like the 

wind.
           
I just sigh, I

      
 just cried,

But I'm dreami

ng that I'm gl

eam-ing
           
In her eye, in

      
 her eye.


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

CHORUS 2:
           
"Tojo never  m

           
ade it.
           
Tojo  never  m

           
ade it to  Dar

win."
           
"Tojo never  m

           
ade it.
           
Tojo  never  m

        
ade it to  ___

  
  ___   Darwin

."


CODA:
 [
"That year, Sa

nta never came

." (Silent whi

sper)


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 
Pearl Harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Darwin