| Em7 | A7sus4 | D |
| Well we’re | living here in | Allentown | |
| Am7 | D9sus4 | G |
| And they’re | closing all the | factories down | |
| Em7 | A | Bm |
| Out in | Bethlehem they’re | killing | time |
| F#m/A | G6 | D/F# | A7sus4 | A |
| Filling out | forms, | standing in | line | |
| Em7 | A7sus4 | D |
| Well our | fathers fought the | Second World War | |
| Am7 | D9sus4 | G |
| Spent their | weekends on the | Jersey shore | |
| Em7 | A | Bm |
| Met our | mothers in the | US | O |
| F#m/A | G6 | D/F# | Asus4 | A |
| Asked them to | dance, | danced with them s | low | |
| Em7 | A7sus4 | D |
| And we’re | living here in | Allentown | |
| F/A | G/B | C | G/C | C |
| But the | restlessness was | handed d | own | | |
| Am7 | D9sus4 | Em | G/B | C | D |
| And it’s | getting very | hard to st | ay | | | |
| Em7 | A7sus4 | D |
| Well we’re | waiting here in | Allentown | |
| Am7 | D9sus4 | G |
| For the | Pennsylvania | we never found | |
| Em7 | A | Bm |
| For the | promises our | teachers g | ave |
| F#m/A | G6 | D/F# | A7sus4 | A |
| If we worked | hard, | if we be | haved | |
| Em7 | A7sus4 | D |
| So the | graduations | hang on the wall | |
| Am7 | D9sus4 | G |
| But they | never really | helped us at all | |
| Em7 | A | Bm |
| No they | never taught us | what was | real |
| F#m/A | G6 | D/F# | A7sus4 | A |
| Iron and | coke, | chromium st | eel | |
| Em7 | A7sus4 | D |
| And we’re | waiting here in | Allentown | |
| F/A | G/B | C | G/C | C |
| But they’ve | taken all the | coal from the gr | ound | | |
| Am | D9sus4 | Em | G/B | C | D |
| And the | union people | crawled a | way | | | |
| F | G/F | F |
| Every child | had a pret | ty good shot |
| F | G/F | Bb/F |
| To get at least as f | ar as their | old man got |
| F | G/F | F |
| But something ha | ppened on the | way to that place |
| F | G/F | Cadd9 |
| They threw an A | merican flag in o | ur face |
| Em7 | A7sus4 | D |
| Well I’m | living here in | Allentown | |
| F/A | G/B | C | G/C | C |
| And it’s | hard to keep a | good man | down | | |
| Am | D9sus4 | Em | G/B | C | D |
| But I | won’t be getting | up toda | y | | | |
| F | G/F | F | F | G/F | Bb/F | F | G/F | F | F | G | C |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Am7 | D9sus4 | Em | G/B | C | D |
| And it’s | getting very | hard to st | ay | | | |
| Em7 | A7sus4 | D |
| And we’re | living here in | Allentown | |
