Billy Joel - Leningrad: chords

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Viktor was born in  the spring of ´44
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And never saw   his father anymore
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A child of sacrifice,  a child of war
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Another son who never had a father after Leningrad

Went off to school
And learned to serve the state
Followed the rules
And drank his vodka straight
The only way to live was drown the hate
A Russian life was very sad
And such was life in Leningrad

Chorus:
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I was born in ´49
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A cold war kid in McCarthy time
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Stop ´em at the 38th Parallel
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Blast those yellow reds to hell
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And cold war kids were hard to kill
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Under their desk in an air raid drill
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Haven´t they heard we won the war
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What do they keep on fighting for?

Viktor was sent to some Red Army town
Served out his time
Became a circus clown
The greatest happiness he'd ever found
Was making Russian children glad
And children lived in Leningrad

Chorus:
Children lived in Levittown
Hid in the shelters underground
Until the Soviets turned their ships around
And tore the Cuban missiles down
And in that bright October sun
We knew our childhood days were done
And I watched my friends go off to war
What do they keep on fighting for?

And so my child and I came to this place
To meet him eye to eye and face to face
He made my daughter laugh
Then we embraced
We never knew what friends we had
Until we came to Leningrad