Chords for Billy Joel - Allentown (from Live at Shea Stadium)

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[C#] _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[C#] _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ Well, [C#] _ [F#] _ _ _ [D#m] we're living here [F#] in [C#] Allentown, _ and they're [G#m] closing all [C#] the [F#] factories down.
_ [D#m] Out in the club [G#] [A#m] circling, [G#] time filling [F#] up bombs, [C#]
standing in [G#] line.
[D#m] Well, our fathers from the [C#] Second World War, _ [G#m] spent their weekends on the [C#] Jersey [F#] Shore.
_ _ [D#m] Met our mothers in the [G#] U [A#m].S., [G#] all asked [F#] them to [C#] dance, dance to the truth.
[G#] And [D#m] we're living here in [C#] Allentown, _ _ [E] but the restlessness [F#] was handed [B] down.
_ [G#m] And which can [C#] tingle your heart?
[D#m] Stay!
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _
_ [B] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ Stay!
Whoa!
[B] _ _ _ [C#] _ [F#] _ _
Oh, [B] hot!
_ _ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ _
[D#m] Well, we're waiting here in _ [C#] Allentown, _ [G#m] for the Pennsylvania we never [F#] found. _
[D#m] For the [G#] promises our teachers [A#m] gave, [G#]
if we [F#] worked hard, [C#] if we believed.
_ [G#] _
[D#m] So the graduations [C#] hang on the wall, but [G#m] they never really helped us [F#] at all. _
[D#m] No, they never [G#] taught us what was [A#m] real.
[G#]
Iron [F#] and coal, [C#] chromium, steel.
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And [D#m] we're waiting [C#] here in Allentown, _ but [C#m] they're taking [F#] all the coal from [B] the ground.
And [G#m] the Union [C#] people come [D#m] _ [F#] waiting.
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[C#] _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _
_ [E] _ Every child had a pretty good shot, but yet at [F#] least as far as [A] their old man got.
[E] _ Something happened on the way to that place, they threw [F#] another record [B] placking on the _ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _
face.
[C#] [F#] Whoa!
_ Oh, [B] hot!
_ _ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ _ [D#m] Well, I'm living here in [C#] Allentown, and [C#m] it's hard to [F#] keep a good [B] man down.
[G#m] But I will be getting up.
[D#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ [B]
Stay!
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[C#] _ [F#] Stay!
_ _ [B] _ _
[F#] Whoa!
_ _ And [B] it's getting very [C#] hard [D#m] to [F#] stay.
_ [B] _ _ [C#] _
[G#m] We're living here in [C#] _ [F#] Allentown. _
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_ [N] Thank you. _ _ _ _ _