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ALLENTOWN Billy Joel
Intro:
C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi
C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi
C - G5/E - D - G - C5/D -
Gadd9/D - G
Em A D Em7/D - D
Well we're living here in Allen - town
Am D G Gadd9/D - G
And they're closing all the factories down
Em A Bm
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
F#m/A G6
Filling out forms -
D/F# Asus4 A
Standing in line
G6/E A7 D Em7/D - D
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Am7 D7 G C5/D - Gadd9/D - G
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Em A Bm
Met our mothers in the US - O
F#m/A G6
Asked them to dance,
D/F# Asus4 A
Danced with them slow
Em Asus4 Dsus4 D
And we're living here in Allen - town
F/A G7/B C Cadd11 - Em7/C - C
But the restlessness was handed down
Am D Em G/B C D
And it's getting very hard to stay - ay - ay - ay
C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi
C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi
C - G5/E - D - G - C5/D
- Gadd9/D - G
Em A D Em7/D - D
Well we're waiting here in Allen - town
Am D G Gadd9/D - G
For the Pennsylvania we never found
Em A Bm
For the promises our teachers gave
F#m/A G6
If we worked hard ,
D/F# Asus4 A
If we be - haved
Em A D Em7/D - D
So the graduations hang on the wall
Am D G Gadd9/D - G
But they never really helped us at all
Em A Bm
No they never taught us what was real
F#m/A G6
Iron and coke -
D/F# Asus4 A
And chromium steel
Em Asus4 Dsus4 D
And we're waiting here in Allen - town
F/A G7/B C Cadd11 - Em7/C - C
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
Am D Em G/B C D
And the union people crawled a - way - ay - ay - ay
C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi -
C - G5/E - D
F G11/F Fi
Every child had a pretty good shot
F G11/F Bb/F
To get at least as far as their old man got
F G11/F Fi
But something happened on the way to that place
F G Ci
They threw an A - merican flag in our face
C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi
C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi
C - G5/E - D - G - C5/D
- Gadd9/D - G
Em A D Em7/D - D
Well I'm living here in Allen - town
F/A G/B C Cadd11 - Em7/C - C
And it's hard to keep a good man down
Am D Em G/B C D
But I won't be getting up to - day - ay - ay - ay
C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi -
C - G5/E -D
Solo:
F - G11/F - Fi
F - G11/F - Bb/F
F - G11/F - Fi
F - G - C
C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi -
C - G5/E - D - G/B -
G/D Gi C G5/E D Em G/B C D
And it's getting very hard to stay - ay - ay - ay
Am D G C5/D - Gadd9/D - G//
And we're living here in Allen - town
C x32010
G5/E xx2033
D xx0232
G/B x2003x
G/D xx000x
Gi xx543x
C5/D xx0013
G 320003
Gadd9/D xx0203
Gi xxx00x
C5/D xx0013
G 320003
Gi xxx00x
C5/D xx0013
G 320003
Gadd9/D xx0203
Em 022000
A x02220
Em7/D xx0030
Am x02210
Bm x20402
F#m/A x03222
G6 322000
D/F# 2x0232
Asus4 x02230
G6/E 022003
A7 x02223
Am7 x02213
Dsus4 xx0233
F/A x03211
G7/B x20031
Cadd11 x32011
Em7/C x3203x
F 1332xx
G11/F 130203
Fi 133211
Bb/F 113331
Ci x35553
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Very badly formatted, almoset unplayable.
delete the chords you don´t want to play
That's not what I meant. Chords and lyrics are not well aligned here, so when you try to play along, it is not clear which chord belongs where.