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

[VERSE 1]
     C             C        
St.  Val-en-tine's day  comes 
    G            C
a-round once a year,
Continúa después del anuncio
    C               C            
our thought turn to love  as the 
F            G     G
day it draws near,
     C                C           
When sweet-hearts and dar-lings,  
F             C
hus-bands and wives,
       C           C               
Pledge love and de-vo-tion for.the 
G             C     C
rest of their lives
   F            F           
As day turns to even-ing soon 
  C               C
night-time does fall,
      C           C              
Young peo-ple get ready  for the 
F             G     G
Val-en-tine's Ball,
       C                C         
As the night rings with laugh-ter 
     F             C
some peo-ple still mourn
    C            C           
The for-ty eight chil-dren who 
  G           C     C
ne-ver came home


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


[VERSE 2]
      C           C               
it's  down to the Star-dust they  
G              C
all made their way
    C                C           
The boun-cers looked on as they  
F           G     G
lined up to pay
    C            C                 
The rec-ords are spin-ning there's 
F           C
dan-cing as well
     C            C             G
Just how the fire start-ed sure 
          C     C
no one can tell.
     F          F            C   
In.a mat-ter of sec-onds 
        C
con-fus-ion did reign
    C           C            
The room was in dark-ness fire 
  F           G      G
ex-its were chained
     C              C         F  
The  fire-fight-ers wept  for 
            C
they could not hide,
      C           C          G   
Their sorr-ow and an-ger for 
          C     C
those left in-side.


[CHORUS]


[VERSE 3]
      C          C          G    
All a-round  the city  the  bad 
       C
news it spread
          C           C       
There's a fire in the Star-dust 
           F            G     G
there's  for-ty eight dead
C            C             F    
Hun-dreds of chil-dren are 
        C
in-jured and maimed
    C           C            
And all just be-cause the fire 
  G           C       C
ex-its were chained.
    F             F              
Our lead-ers were shocked,  grim 
C                C
state-ments were made
          C            C     
They shed tears by the graves  
         F            G     G
as.the bo-dies were laid
     C             C          F  
The  vic-tims have wait-ed in 
           C
vain for four years
   C              C           
It seems like our lead-ers shed 
  G           C     C
croc-o-dile tears.


[CHORUS]


[VERSE 4]
       C            C        
Half a mill-ion was spent  on  
     G          C
so-lic-itor's fees,
  C               C           F  
A for-tune to.the ow-ner and  his
        G     G
 fa-mil-y
     C          C          F
It's hard to be-lieve  not one 
          C
pen-ny came
       C              C           
To the work-ing class peo-ple who 
G             C     C
suff-ered the pain.
F            F          C       
Days turn to weeks  and weeks 
      C
turn to years
         C           C        F  
Our laws fav-our the rich  or so 
       G     G
it app-ears
   C            C             F  
A  wo-man still waits for her 
          C
kids to come home
   C               C          G  
In-jus-tice breeds an-ger and 
                C     C
that's what's been done.