They Never Came Home

G 320033
F xx3211
picking pattern is base note then 2 plucks of 3 strings as tabbed below.
then at the end of the sentences a single strum for 2 bars (the extra bar on every 2nd line)
G      C      F
xxxxxx xxxxxx xx1x1x
xx3x3x xx1x1x xx2x2x
xx0x0x xx0x0x xx3x3x
xx0x0x xx2x2x 0xxxxx
xxxxxx 3xxxxx xxxxxx
3xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx
or just by string numbers if you dont understand tab yet
G
6, 432, 432
C
5, 432, 432
F
4, 321, 321
VERSES
C C G C
C C F G G
C C F C
C C G C C
F F C C
C C F G G
C C F C
C C G C C
CHORUS
F F C C
C C F G G
C C F C
C C G C C
most notable memory aids are:
2nd half of verse and chorus are same chords,
2nd third and 4th lines of each section the same

     C             C            G            C
St.  Val-en-tine's day  comes a-round once a year,
    C               C            F            G     G
our thought turn to love  as the day it draws near,
     C                C           F             C
When sweet-hearts and dar-lings,  hus-bands and wives,
       C           C               G             C     C
Pledge love and de-vo-tion for.the rest of their lives
   F            F             C               C
As day turns to even-ing soon night-time does fall,
      C           C              F             G     G
Young peo-ple get ready  for the Val-en-tine's Ball,
       C                C              F             C
As the night rings with laugh-ter some peo-ple still mourn
    C            C             G           C     C
The for-ty eight chil-dren who ne-ver came home

F           F           C              C
Have we for-got-ten the suff-ering and pain
        C           C               F          G     G
the sur-viv-ors and vic-tims of.the fire in Ar-tane,
    C            C            F        C
the moth-ers and fath-ers for-ever  to mourn
    C            C             G           C     C
the for-ty eight chil-dren who ne-ver came home.

      C           C               G              C
it's  down to the Star-dust they  all made their way
    C                C           F           G     G
The boun-cers looked on as they  lined up to pay
    C            C                 F           C
The rec-ords are spin-ning there's dan-cing as well
     C            C             G          C     C
Just how the fire start-ed sure no one can tell.
     F          F            C           C
In.a mat-ter of sec-onds con-fus-ion did reign
    C           C              F           G      G
The room was in dark-ness fire ex-its were chained
     C              C         F              C
The  fire-fight-ers wept  for they could not hide,
      C           C          G             C     C
Their sorr-ow and an-ger for those left in-side.

      C          C          G           C
All a-round  the city  the  bad news it spread
          C           C                  F            G     G
There's a fire in the Star-dust there's  for-ty eight dead
C            C             F            C
Hun-dreds of chil-dren are in-jured and maimed
    C           C              G           C       C
And all just be-cause the fire ex-its were chained.
    F             F              C                C
Our lead-ers were shocked,  grim state-ments were made
          C            C              F            G     G
They shed tears by the graves  as.the bo-dies were laid
     C             C          F             C
The  vic-tims have wait-ed in vain for four years
   C              C             G           C     C
It seems like our lead-ers shed croc-o-dile tears.

       C            C             G          C
Half a mill-ion was spent  on  so-lic-itor's fees,
  C               C           F          G     G
A for-tune to.the ow-ner and  his fa-mil-y
     C          C          F          C
It's hard to be-lieve  not one pen-ny came
       C              C           G             C     C
To the work-ing class peo-ple who suff-ered the pain.
F            F          C             C
Days turn to weeks  and weeks turn to years
         C           C        F         G     G
Our laws fav-our the rich  or so it app-ears
   C            C             F            C
A  wo-man still waits for her kids to come home
   C               C          G                  C     C
In-jus-tice breeds an-ger and that's what's been done.

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