Ti Tree School / Music Outback
“Lakinar Nwerna School-warn Petyem”
Happy Birthday Ti Tree
(Ti Tree students 2009 & Music Outback: Steve Berry & Mal Webb)
Verse1:
D G C
1969, a man walked on the moon
D
Ti Tree said, “we wanna have a school,
G C
We wanna have a school soon”
D G C
6 silver bullet caravans came up from Alice Springs
D
With teachers, blackboards, books and pens
G C
And lots of other things
Chorus:
F C Bb Gm
Happy Birthday Ti Tree, 40 years today
F C Bb A7
Happy Birthday Ti Tree, we’ve all come a long way
Verse 2:
D
Our parents and our grandparents
G C
Learnt to read and write
D
Listened to their teachers
G C
Until they got it right
D
They wanted bigger classrooms
G C
But they had to wait
D G C
Until they built a brand new school in 1978
Chorus x2