Chords for Billy Joel - Leningrad (Live From The River Of Dreams Tour)

_ _ _ [A] _ _ [Em] _ _ [B] _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
[A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ Victor [G] was born in the spring of 44.
I never saw his father [A] ever.
[C] A child of sacrifice, [A] a child [E] of war,
[D] another [F#] son who never [B] had.
A [A] father after learning [D] grand,
went [G] off to school and learned [A] to sell [D] estates,
followed [G] the rules and drank [A] his vodka straight.
The [G] only way to [A] live was [E] drown the hate.
[D] Russian [F#] life was very [Bm] sad,
such was life [D] in the Midlands.
_ [Dm] When I was born in 49,
[A] a Cold War kid in the coffee time,
[G] slumbered with the 38 in parallel,
[A] blasted those yellow reds to hell.
[D] Cold War [Dm] kids were hardly [A] killed,
on their [Am] desks skinny and raged.
[G] Haven't they heard of the Mother of [A] War?
What do they keep on fighting for? _
[D] _ Victor was sent to [A] some Red Army [D] town,
served out his time,
_ [A] became a [C] circus clown.
The [G] greatest happiness [A] _ [E] he'd ever found
[D] was [A#] making Russian [Bm] children glad
that children lived [D] in Leningrad.
_ _ [Dm] The children lived in Red Town
[A] and hid in the shelters on the ground
[G] till the Soviets turned their ships [A] around
and tore the Cuban missiles down.
[Dm] And in that bright October sun
[A] we knew our childhood days were done.
[G] I watched my [G] friends go off to war,
[A] what do they keep on fighting for?
_ _ [D] _
So my child and I [A] came to this [D] place
to meet him [G] eye to eye [A] and face to [C] face.
He made [G] my daughter laugh,
then we [E] embraced.
[D] We never [A#] knew what friends we [Bm] had
until [A] we came to [D] Leningrad.
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[F#] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _
[F#] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [E] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _