Billy Joel - Allentown: chords

A          Em             A     D
Well we're living here in Allentown
             Am              D         G
And they're closing all the factories down
        Em                A       Bm
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
 A           Em
Filling out forms
  D          A
Standing in line.

          Em                 A            D
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
             Am              D       G
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
        Em             A Bm A
Met our mothers at the USO
A             Em
Asked them to dance
 D                 A A7
Danced with them slow

          Em             A    D
And we're living here in Allentown.
         F                G      C
But the restlessness was handed down
          Am           D       Em Bm C D G
And it's getting very hard to stay

Well, we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard, if we behaved

So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke, chromium steel

Chorus:
And we're waiting here in Allentown
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away

F                   G           F
Every child had a pretty good shot
           G                F            A#
To get at least as far as their old man got.
F                             G           F
If something happened on the way to that place
                            G          F G
They threw an American flag in our face,

Chorus:
Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't be getting up today

And it’s getting very hard to stay
And we’re living here in Allentown