Chords for Billy Joel - Allentown (Official Video)

[B] [G] .
[D] [G] .
[Em] [D] [G] .
[Em] [D] [G] .
When we're [Em] living here in [D].
Allentown, and [Am] they're closing all the [G] factories down,.
[Em] out in Bethlehem [A] they're killing [Bm] .
[F#m] time, filling [Em] out [D] forms, standing in [A] line.
[Em] But our fathers fought the Second [D] World War, [Am] spent their weekends on the Jersey [G].
Shore,.
met our mothers with [A] the U [B].
S [F#m].
O.
, asked [Em] them to [D] dance, dance with us all.
[A] [Em] And we're living here in [D].
Allentown, [F] but the rest [G] missed Christmas and [C] they were down,.
[Am] and this guy seemed very [D] [Em] hard to [G] stand.
[C] [D] [Em] .
[D] [G] Yeah, yeah, [Em] .
[D] oh.
[G] [Em] .
[D] [G] Well, we're waiting here in [D] Allentown, [Am] for the Pennsylvania we never [G] found,.
[Em] for the promises our [A] teachers [Bm] gave, [F#m] if we [Em] work hard, [D] if we behave.
[A] So [Em] the [G] graduations hang on [D] the wall, [Am] but they never really helped us [G] at all.
No, [Em] they never [A] taught us what [Bm] was real, [F#m] iron [Em] and coal, [D] chromium, steel.
[A] And [G] we're waiting here in [D] Allentown, but [F] they've taken [G] all the coal from [C] the ground,.
[Am] and the Union people throw it [Em] away.
[G] [Em] .
[D] [G] [D] [G] .
[Em] Every [F] .
[G] child [F] had a pretty good shot, to get at [G] least as [A#] far as their home and [F] that's, .
something happened on the way to that place, they [G] threw an [C] American wagon off [D] .
[G] the fence.
Yeah, yeah, [D].
oh.
[G] Well, [D] .
[G] I'm living here [D] in Allentown, and [F] it's hard to keep [G] a good man [C] down,.
but [Am] I won't be getting [Em] up.
[G] [C] Yeah, [D] .
[G] [D] [G] yeah, [Em] [D] [F] [G] .
[F] [G] .
[A#] [F] .
[G] .
[C] [G] .
[D] oh.
[G] .
And it's getting very [D] [Em] hard to [G] say, [C] [D] and [Am] we're living here in [G] Allentown.
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