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