Santa Never Made It Into Darwin chords
... a devastated city- Writer: Bill Cate
- Date: 1975
- Brief: The destruction of the city of Darwin in the Northern Territory, Australia by Cyclone Tracy which devastated the town from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974.
- Featured Artists: Bill & Boyd
- Music: Key of E Major in 4/4 time at 138 bpm (𝅘𝅥)
- Chords: E, E7, F#m, F#m7, F#7, G#m, A, B7, C#m
- Beginners: C Major is an easier key with no barre chords. If you are playing with the video, you will need a capo on the 4th fret.
Chart Legend
Barre Line: One finger holds down multiple strings R: Root Note
Unmarked strings: Play open X: Don't play string B: Bass Note
Santa Never Made It Into Darwin
Song Key is highlighted - Transpose to any other key
A B7 E E E7 F#m B7 E
Intro: 4/4 | | | | - | | | | 𝄎 |
E F#m7
1. On Christ-mas Eve of se-ven-ty four the warn-nng sound-ed out
B7 A E
On all the broad-cast sta-tions a great storm was near a-bout | 𝄎 |
E F#m7
The boys and girls a-sleep in bed to-mor-row was their day
B7 A E E E7
Their mums and dads all prayed the migh-ty storm would turn a-way | - |
A B7 E E E7
Chorus: San-ta ne-ver made it in-to Dar-win | - |
A B7 E E E7
Di-sas-ter struck at dawn on Christ-mas day | - |
A B7 E G#m C#m E
San-ta ne-ver made it in-to | Dar-win - | - |
F#m B7 E
A big wind came and blew the town a - | way | 𝄎 | 𝄎 | 𝄎 |
E F#m7
2. Christ-mas morn-ing was a night-mare as cy-clone Tra-cy struck
B7 A E
It rip-ped a-part the build-ings like an a-tom bomb had struck | 𝄎 |
E F#m7
It twis-ted i-ron gir-ders and it flat-tened all the trees
B7 A E E E7
The might of such a cy-clone must be seen to be be-lieved | - |
A B7 E E E7
Chorus: San-ta ne-ver made it in-to Dar-win | - |
A B7 E E E7
Di-sas-ter struck at dawn on Christ-mas day | - |
A B7 E G#m C#m E
San-ta ne-ver made it in-to | Dar-win - | - |
F#m B7 E E G#m
A big wind came and blew the town a - | way | - |
C#m
Bridge: Ma-ny boats put out to sea
G#m
Ve-ry few re-turned
A E
Boats were pound-ed on the rocks
F#7 B7
Or in huge seas o-ver-turned | 𝄎 |
E F#m7
3. Aus-tra-li-a was shocked and sad-dened as the news came through
B7 A E
A de-vas-ta-ted ci-ty that must be built a-new | 𝄎 |
E F#m7
For suf-fer-ing and heart-break to hap-pen in this way
B7 A E E E7
A na-tu-ral di-sas-ter to come on Christ-mas day | - |
A B7 E E E7
Chorus: San-ta ne-ver made it in-to Dar-win | - |
A B7 E E E7
Di-sas-ter struck at dawn on Christ-mas day | - |
A B7 E G#m C#m E
San-ta ne-ver made it in-to | Dar-win - | - |
F#m B7 E E G#m
A big wind came and blew the town a - | way | - |
A B7 E E E7
Chorus: San-ta ne-ver made it in-to Dar-win | - |
A B7 E E E7
Di-sas-ter struck at dawn on Christ-mas day | - |
A B7 E G#m C#m E
San-ta ne-ver made it in-to | Dar-win - | - |
F#m B7 E G#m C#m E
A big wind came and blew the town a - | way - | - |
F#m B7 E F#m B7 E
A big wind came and blew the town a - | way | 𝄎 | - | |
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Song Brief:
The following is an excerpt from YouTube in relation to the History surrounding the song:Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974, devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. It is the most compact cyclone or equivalent-strength hurricane on record in the Australian basin and Southern Hemisphere, with gale-force winds extending only 48 kilometres (30 mi) from the centre, and was also the smallest tropical cyclone worldwide until 2008, when Tropical Storm Marco of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season broke the record, with gale-force winds extending only 19 kilometres (12 mi) from the centre. After forming over the Arafura Sea, the storm moved southwards and affected the city with Category 4 winds on the Australian cyclone intensity scale, while there is evidence to suggest that it had reached Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale when it made landfall.
Tracy killed 71 people, caused A$837 million in damage (1974 dollars), or approximately A$6.41 billion (2014 dollars), or $4.94 billion 2014 USD. It destroyed more than 70 percent of Darwin's buildings, including 80 percent of houses. Tracy left more than 25,000 out of the 47,000 inhabitants of the city homeless prior to landfall and required the evacuation of over 30,000 people. Most of Darwin's population was evacuated to Adelaide, Whyalla, Alice Springs, Brisbane and Sydney, and many never returned to the city. After the storm passed, the city was rebuilt using more stringent standards "to cyclone code". Bruce Stannard of The Age stated that Cyclone Tracy was a "disaster of the first magnitude ... without parallel in Australia's history."
