Chords for Billy Joel - Allentown (W/Lyrics)

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_ _ [Em] When we're living here in _ [D]
Allentown, _ [Am] and they're closing all the [G] factories down,
[Em] out in Bethlehem they're [A] filling [Bm]
time, [F#m] filling [Em] out forms, [D] standing in line.
[A] _ [Em] But our fathers fought the Second [D] World War, _ [Am] spent their weekends on the Jersey [G]
Shore.
_ Then our mothers with the [A] U [B].S [F#m].O. asked them [Em] to dance, [D] dance with us all.
[A] _ [Em] And we're living here in [D] Allentown, _ _ [F] but the [G] restlessness was handed [C] _
down,
[Am] and it's getting very [D] [Em] hard to [G] stay.
Hey, hey, [C] hey, hey, [D] hey, hey, [Em] hey, _ _ [D] [G] hey, hey, hey, hey, [Em] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, [D] hey.
Well, [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ we're waiting here in _ [D] Allentown, _ [Am] for the Pennsylvania we never [G] found,
_ [Em] for the promises [A] our futures [Bm] gave [F#m] if we [Em] worked hard, [D] if we behaved.
_ [A] So [Em] the [G] graduations hang on [D] the wall, but [Am] they never really helped us [G] at all.
No, [Em] they never [A] told 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're taking [G] all the coal from the [C] ground,
_ [Am] and they don't hear people call.
[Em] Hey, [G] hey, hey, [C]
hey, [D] hey, hey, [Em] hey, _ _ [D] [G] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, [Em] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, _ [D] _ [F] _
hey.
Every [G] child [F] had a pretty good shot, to get at [G] least as [A#] far as their home and [F] got. _
Something happened on the way to that place
They threw in [G] the mirror, [C] threw black in our [D] face
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Oh, [G] oh, oh
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_ [G] _ _ Well, [Em] I'm living here in [D] _ Allentown
And [F] it's hard to be [G] put with my [C] down
_ But [Am] I won't be giving up [Em] today
[G] _ [C] Yeah, yeah, _ [D] _
_ [G] yeah
[D] _ _ [G] Yeah, _
[Em] _ _ [D] yeah, [F] _ _ _ [G] _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] yeah
Yeah, yeah, _ _ [D] yeah
Oh, [G] oh, oh
[Em] I'm stressing very [D] hard [Em] today
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_ [C] _ _ [D] _ [C] I'm living here in [G] Allentown _ _ _ _ _ _
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