Allentown Chords by Billy Joel

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When _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ we're living [A] here in _ [D]
Allentown, _ [Am] and they're closing [A] all the [G] factories down,
_ [Em] Out in [A] Bethlehem they're filling [Bm]
time, [F#m] filling [Em] out forms, [D] standing in line.
[A] _ [Em] But our fathers [A] fought the Second [D] World War, [Am] spent their weekends [C] on the Jersey [G]
Shore,
_ [Em] met our mothers [A] with the U [B].S [F#m].O., asked them [Em] to dance, [A] dance with us all.
[Em] And we're living [A] here in [D] Allentown, _ _ [F] but the [G] restlessness was [C] handed her down,
_ [Am] and this can seem very [Em] hard to stand.
[G] Hey, hey, [C] hey, hey, hey, [D] hey, hey, [C] _
[Em] _ _ [G] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, [Em]
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
[G] Well, _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ we're waiting here in _ [D] Allentown, _ [Am] for the [A] Pennsylvania we never [G] found,
_ [Em] for the promises [A] our teachers [Bm] gave, [F#m] if we [Em] work hard, [D] if we [A] behave.
_ So [Em] the [A] graduations hang on [D] the wall, but [Am] they never [A] really helped us [G] at all.
No, [Em] they never told [A] us what was [Bm] real, [F#m] iron and [Em] coal, [A] and chromium steel.
_ And [Em] we're waiting [A] here in [D] Allentown, _ but [F] they've taken [G] all the coal from the [C] ground,
_ [Am] and the Union people thrown [Em] away.
[G] Hey, hey, hey, [C] hey, hey, [D] hey, [C] _ [Em] _ _ [G] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, [Em] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, [D] _ _ [F]
hey.
Every child [F] had a pretty good shot to get at least as [A#] far as their home and guess. _
Something happened on the way to that place, they threw an [C] American flag in our _ [D] _
[G] face.
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ Well, I'm living here [A] in _ [D] Allentown, and [F] it's hard to keep [G] a good man [C] down,
_ but [Am] I won't be getting up [Em] today.
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_ [Em] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [G] Hey, hey, hey, hey, [Bm] hey, _ [D] _ [F] _ _ _ [Gm] _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [A] hey, hey, hey, hey, [Em] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
[D] Oh, _ _ [Em] I'm expecting Mary Holmes, hey, [G] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] and [Am] we're living here in [G] Aberfowl. _ _ _ _ _ _
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