Lyrics When The First Bombs Fell - Lee Kernaghan

19th of February 1942
Bathurst Island sent a message through
There's a big formation and they're bearing down
From the north-west headed straight for Darwin town

Oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh
Woah
Ooh-woah

The first bomb exploded down beside the warf
They hit the USS Peary and the oil stores
The Neptuna went up in a ball of flame
The black smoke rose when the zero's came

We've got smoking barrels on the LMGs
Man the vickers, grab your .303s
We're on the ropes but we'll give 'em hell
Darwin rumbled when the first bombs fell

Thousand pounders blew the town apart
They hit the post office on the esplanade
A family died in the surprise attack
But the AA batteries were fight'n 'em back

Oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh
Woah
Ooh-woah

The second wave unloaded on the aerodrome
Machine guns rattled and bombs exploded
Hangars blazing as the shrapnel flies
Armed invaders in Australian skies

We've got smoking barrels on the LMGs
Man the vickers, grab your .303s
We're on the ropes but we'll give 'em hell
Darwin rumbled when the first bombs fell

Oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh
Woah
Ooh-woah

Oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh
Woah
Ooh-woah

We've got smoking barrels on the LMGs
Man the vickers, grab your .303s
We're on the ropes but we'll give 'em hell

Smoking barrels on the LMGs
Man the vickers, grab your .303s
We're on the ropes but we'll give 'em hell
Darwin rumbled when the first bombs fell

Oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh
Woah
Ooh-woah
Oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh
Woah
Woah
Woah
Woah