Billy Joel - Allentown
I play in the original key (D), but falsetto on the “getting very hard to stay”
Cadd9Em7→ DG/BG
Cadd9Em7→ DG/BG
Cadd9Em7→ DGC/GG
Vox on the 3 of the chord on “living”
Well we’re Em7living here in A7sus4Allentown D
And they’re Am7closing all the D9sus4factories down G
Out in Em7Bethlehem they’re Akilling Bmtime
F#m/AFilling out G6forms, D/F#standing in A7sus4line A
Well our Em7fathers fought the A7sus4Second World War D
Spent their Am7weekends on the D9sus4Jersey shore G
Met our Em7mothers in the AUSBmO
F#m/AAsked them to G6dance, D/F#danced with them sAsus4low A
And we’re Em7living here in A7sus4Allentown D
But the F/Arestlessness was G/Bhanded dCown G/CC
Vox on the 5 of the chord on “getting very hard”
And it’s Am7getting very D9sus4hard to stEmay G/BCD
Cadd9Em7→ DG/BG
Cadd9Em7→ DG/BG
Cadd9Em7→ DGC/GG
Well we’re Em7waiting here in A7sus4Allentown D
For the Am7Pennsylvania D9sus4we never found G
For the Em7promises our Ateachers gBmave
F#m/AIf we worked G6hard, D/F#if we beA7sus4haved A
So the Em7graduations A7sus4hang on the wall D
But they Am7never really D9sus4helped us at all G
No they Em7never taught us Awhat was Bmreal
F#m/AIron and G6coke, D/F#chromium stA7sus4eel A
And we’re Em7waiting here in A7sus4Allentown D
But they’ve F/Ataken all the G/Bcoal from the grCound G/CC
And the Amunion people D9sus4crawled aEmway G/BCD
Cadd9Em7→ DG/BG
Cadd9Em7→ D
FEvery child G/Fhad a pretFty good shot
FTo get at least as fG/Far as their Bb/Fold man got
FBut something haG/Fppened on the Fway to that place
FThey threw an AG/Fmerican flag in oCadd9ur face
Cadd9Em7→ DG/BG
Cadd9Em7→ DG/BG
Cadd9Em7→ DGC/GG
Well I’m Em7living here in A7sus4Allentown D
And it’s F/Ahard to keep a G/Bgood man Cdown G/CC
But I Amwon’t be getting D9sus4up todaEmyG/BCD
Cadd9Em7→ DG/BG
Cadd9Em7→ D
Instrumental bridge, more or less
FG/FFFG/FBb/FFG/FFFGC
And it’s Am7getting very D9sus4hard to stEmay G/BCD
And we’re Em7living here in A7sus4Allentown D