{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1680755,"song":"They Never Came Home","artist":"Christy Moore","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11351793-they-never-came-home-chords-by-christy-moore/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1680755?type=chord","rating":4.74705,"votes":14,"content":"Foreword:\r\nIn my opinion this is one of the key songs of Christy Moore's career epitomizing his pursuit\r\nof social justice and courage to speak out about issues of the day. This tells the story \r\nof the Star Dust nightclub tragedy of 14/2/1981 and the subsequent injustice and questionable \r\nimpartiality of the legal system, the sham enquiry that without evidence exonerated the owners \r\nfrom wrongdoing by blaming  probable cause as arson (yes it was found to be probably the \r\nvictims fault for burning themselves alive), and saving the insurer a vast fortune on \r\ncompensating the 48 deaths and 215 seriously injured; and the owners untested for negligence in the \r\nsafe storage of chemicals, the chaining of fire exits and the boarding up windows with steel plates\r\nThis song was played non stop in 1985 for 10 weeks (wearing out cassette tapes and CDs) \r\nin protest of a new niteclub being built on the same site with the insurance payout,\r\nwhile the victims were thrown to the gutter and 3 decades later justice had not been served.\r\nThe Government of the day, the supposed representatives of the people sued Christy Moore for libel \r\nand forced his Ordinary Man album to be recalled, making the few copies out there quite rare. \r\nMany younger people in Ireland are not aware of this song due to it being banned\r\nfrom the airwaves in the republic.\r\n\r\nTime Signature 3/4\r\nThis is just my version and is not an attempt to be an exact copy of Christy's work\r\n\r\nChords (use these if there is any conflict with the automated diagrams)\r\n[ch]C[/ch] x32010\r\n[ch]G[/ch] 320033\r\n[ch]F[/ch] xx3211\r\n\r\npicking pattern is base note then 2 plucks of 3 strings as tabbed below.\r\nthen at the end of the sentences a single strum for 2 bars (the extra bar on every 2nd line)\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nxxxxxx xxxxxx xx1x1x [/tab]\r\nxx3x3x xx1x1x xx2x2x\r\nxx0x0x xx0x0x xx3x3x\r\nxx0x0x xx2x2x 0xxxxx\r\nxxxxxx 3xxxxx xxxxxx\r\n3xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx\r\n\r\nor just by string numbers if you dont understand tab yet\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\n6, 432, 432[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\n5, 432, 432[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\n4, 321, 321[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nVERSES\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[ch]F[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\nCHORUS\r\n[ch]F[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\nmost notable memory aids are:\r\n2nd half of verse and chorus are same chords, \r\n2nd third and 4th lines of each section the same\r\n\r\n[VERSE 1]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSt.  Val-en-tine's day  comes a-round once a year, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nour thought turn to love  as the day it draws near,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen sweet-hearts and dar-lings,  hus-bands and wives, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nPledge love and de-vo-tion for.the rest of their lives[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs day turns to even-ing soon night-time does fall,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch] \r\nYoung peo-ple get ready  for the Val-en-tine's Ball,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs the night rings with laugh-ter some peo-ple still mourn [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe for-ty eight chil-dren who ne-ver came home[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[CHORUS]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHave we for-got-ten the suff-ering and pain [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthe sur-viv-ors and vic-tims of.the fire in Ar-tane,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nthe moth-ers and fath-ers for-ever  to mourn [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nthe for-ty eight chil-dren who ne-ver came home.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 2]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nit's  down to the Star-dust they  all made their way[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch] \r\nThe boun-cers looked on as they  lined up to pay[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe rec-ords are spin-ning there's dan-cing as well [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nJust how the fire start-ed sure no one can tell.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn.a mat-ter of sec-onds con-fus-ion did reign [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe room was in dark-ness fire ex-its were chained[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe  fire-fight-ers wept  for they could not hide,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch] \r\nTheir sorr-ow and an-ger for those left in-side.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[CHORUS]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 3]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAll a-round  the city  the  bad news it spread[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch] \r\nThere's a fire in the Star-dust there's  for-ty eight dead [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHun-dreds of chil-dren are in-jured and maimed [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd all just be-cause the fire ex-its were chained.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOur lead-ers were shocked,  grim state-ments were made [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey shed tears by the graves  as.the bo-dies were laid[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe  vic-tims have wait-ed in vain for four years [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt seems like our lead-ers shed croc-o-dile tears.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[CHORUS]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 4]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHalf a mill-ion was spent  on  so-lic-itor's fees, [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA for-tune to.the ow-ner and  his fa-mil-y[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt's hard to be-lieve  not one pen-ny came[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo the work-ing class peo-ple who suff-ered the pain.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch] \r\nDays turn to weeks  and weeks turn to years [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOur laws fav-our the rich  or so it app-ears[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nA  wo-man still waits for her kids to come home [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn-jus-tice breeds an-ger and that's what's been done. [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[CHORUS]","plain_text":"Foreword:\nIn my opinion this is one of the key songs of Christy Moore's career epitomizing his pursuit\nof social justice and courage to speak out about issues of the day. This tells the story \nof the Star Dust nightclub tragedy of 14/2/1981 and the subsequent injustice and questionable \nimpartiality of the legal system, the sham enquiry that without evidence exonerated the owners \nfrom wrongdoing by blaming  probable cause as arson (yes it was found to be probably the \nvictims fault for burning themselves alive), and saving the insurer a vast fortune on \ncompensating the 48 deaths and 215 seriously injured; and the owners untested for negligence in the \nsafe storage of chemicals, the chaining of fire exits and the boarding up windows with steel plates\nThis song was played non stop in 1985 for 10 weeks (wearing out cassette tapes and CDs) \nin protest of a new niteclub being built on the same site with the insurance payout,\nwhile the victims were thrown to the gutter and 3 decades later justice had not been served.\nThe Government of the day, the supposed representatives of the people sued Christy Moore for libel \nand forced his Ordinary Man album to be recalled, making the few copies out there quite rare. \nMany younger people in Ireland are not aware of this song due to it being banned\nfrom the airwaves in the republic.\n\nTime Signature 3/4\nThis is just my version and is not an attempt to be an exact copy of Christy's work\n\nChords (use these if there is any conflict with the automated diagrams)\nC x32010\nG 320033\nF xx3211\n\npicking pattern is base note then 2 plucks of 3 strings as tabbed below.\nthen at the end of the sentences a single strum for 2 bars (the extra bar on every 2nd line)\n\n\nxx3x3x xx1x1x xx2x2x\nxx0x0x xx0x0x xx3x3x\nxx0x0x xx2x2x 0xxxxx\nxxxxxx 3xxxxx xxxxxx\n3xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx\n\nor just by string numbers if you dont understand tab yet\n\n\n\n\n\nVERSES\nC C G C\nC C F G G\nC C F C\nC C G C C\n\nF F C C\nC C F G G\nC C F C\nC C G C C\n\nCHORUS\nF F C C\nC C F G G\nC C F C\nC C G C C\n\nmost notable memory aids are:\n2nd half of verse and chorus are same chords, \n2nd third and 4th lines of each section the same\n\n[VERSE 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS]\n\n\n[VERSE 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS]\n\n\n[VERSE 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS]","chords":["C","G","F","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}