Billy Joel

Allentown

Billy Joel

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Allentown

	  		C D G 3x 
		G	Em	D 
Well we're living here in Allentown 
		C		D	G 
And they're closing all the factories down 
	Em			A	D 
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time 
  A	      Em	A	D 
Filling out forms - Standing in line 
	     G			Em		D 
Well our fathers fought the Second World War 
		C		    D	G 
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore 
	     Em		A   D 
Met our mothers in the USO 
    A		D		A		D 
Asked them to dance, Danced with them slow 
	G	    Em		D 
And we're living here in Allentown 
 
	F		G		C 
But the restlessness was handed down 
	Em		C	G	D  Em  D 
And it's getting very hard to stay 
 
C D G ? C D G 
		G	Em	D 
Well we're waiting here in Allentown 
		C		D	G 
For the Pennsylvania we never found 
	Em		A	D 
For the promises our teachers gave 
  A	      Em	A	D 
If we worked hard , If we behaved 
     G			Em		D 
So the graduations hang on the wall 
	C		    D	   G 
But they never really helped us at all 
	     Em			A 	  D 
No they never taught us what was real 
    A		D	A 	    D 
Iron and coke - And chromium steel 
 
	G	    Em		D 
And we're waiting here in Allentown 
 
	F		G		C 
But they've taken all the coal from the ground 
	Em		C	G	D  Em  D 
And the union people crawled away 
 
C D G 
 
F		G		A# 
Every child had a pretty good shot 
F		G		A# 
To get at least as far as their old man got 
F		G		A# 
But something happened on the way to that  
 
Place 
F		G		A# 
They threw an American flag in our face 
 
C D G 
	G	    Em		D 
Well I'm living here in Allentown 
		C		D	G 
And it's hard to keep a good man down 
	Em		C	G	D  Em  D 
But I won't be getting up today   -  ay  -  ay 
 
C D G 
 
SOLO>  F G A#  (4x) 
 
	Em		C	G	D  Em  D 
And it's getting very hard to stay 
		C	D	G 
And we're living here in Allentown 
 
 

		  

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