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Billy Joel

Version
studio
published by
rafah
Tone
A-
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Slide
A -> La
Video
Chords
	 
[Intro]
| C(add9) Em D | G/B | C(add9) Em D | G/B |

| C(add9) Em D | G Gsus4 G |

[Verse]
Em7 Asus4 D Dsus2 D
Well we're living here in Allen-town
Am7 D7sus4 G Gsus2 G
And they're closing all the factories down
Em7 A Bm
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
F#m/A G6 D/F# Asus4 A
Filling out forms, standing in line
[Verse]
Em7 Asus4 D Dsus2 D
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Am7 D7sus4 G Gsus2 G
Spent their weekends on the Jersey shore
Em7 A Bm
Met our mothers in the USO
F#m/A G6 D/F# Asus A
Asked them to dance, danced with them slow
Em7 Asus4 D Dsus4 Dsus2 D (break)
And we're living here in Allentown
[Bridge]
F/A G/B C G/C C
But the restlessness was handed down
Am D7sus4 D7 Em G/B C D
And it's getting very hard to stay
[Intro]
| C(add9) Em D | G/B | C(add9) Em D | G/B |

| C(add9) Em D | G Gsus4 G |

[Verse]
Em7 Asus4 D Dsus2 D
Well we're waiting here in Allen-town
Am7 D7sus4 G Gsus2 G
For the Pennsylvania we never found
Em7 A Bm
For the promises our teachers gave
F#m/A G6 D/F# Asus4 A
If we worked hard, if we behaved
[Verse]
Em7 Asus4 D Dsus2 D
So the graduations hang on the wall
Am7 D7sus4 G Gsus2 G
But they never really helped us at all
Em7 A Bm
No they never taught us what was real
F#m/A G6 D/F# Asus4 A
Iron and coke, chromium steel
Em7 Asus4 D Dsus2 D (break)
And we're waiting here in Allentown
[Bridge]
F/A G/B C G/C C
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
Am D7sus4 D7 Em G/B C D
And the union people crawled a-way
[Instrumental]
| C(add9) Em D | G/B | C(add9) Em D | [F]
[Interlude]
F G/F F
Every child had a pretty good shot
F G/F Bb/F
To get at least as far as their old man got
F G/F F
But something happened on the way to that place
F G C [Cadd9]
They threw an American flag in our face
[Instrumental]
| C(add9) Em D | G/B | C(add9) Em D | G/B |

| C(add9) Em D | G Gsus4 G |

[Verse]
Em7 Asus4 D Dsus2 D
Well I'm living here in Allen-town
F/A G/B C G/C C
And it's hard to keep a good man down
Am D7sus4 D7 Em G/B C D
But I won't be getting up to-day
[Instrumental]
| C(add9) Em D | G/B | C(add9) Em D | [F]


| F G/F | F | F G/F | Bb/F | F G/F | F | F G |2/4 C |

[Outro]
C(add9) Em D G/B C(add9) Em D G/B
And it's
C(add9) Em D Em G/B C D
Getting very hard to stay
Am D7sus4 G Gsus4 Gsus2 G
And we're living here in Allentown