Allentown chords by
Billy Joel

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Key: G major

Intro 1

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Verse 1
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A A 
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Well, we're living here in Allentown
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And they're closing all the factories down
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Bm Bm 2
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Out in Bethlehem, they're killing time
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Em Em 
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Filling out forms
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A A 
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Standing in line
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Well, our fathers fought
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the Second World War
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Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
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Em Em 
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Bm Bm 2
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Met our mothers at the U  SO
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Em Em 
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Asked them to dance
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Danced with them slow
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And we're living here in Allentown
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Chorus 1

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But the restlessness was handed down

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Em

Bm

And it's getting very hard to stay

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Interlude 1

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Verse 2
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Well, we're waiting here in Allentown
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D D 
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Am Am 
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D D 
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G G 
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For the Pennsylvania we never found
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Em Em 
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Bm Bm 2
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For the promises our teachers gave
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If    we worked hard
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If we behaved
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So the graduations hang on the wall
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But they never really helped us at all
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Bm Bm 2
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No, they never taught us what was real
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Iron  and coke
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Chromium steel
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And we're waiting here in Allentown
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Chorus 2

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But they've taken all the coal from the ground

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And the union people crawled away

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Interlude 2

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Bridge 1
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Every child had a pretty good shot
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To get at least as far as their old man got
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But something happened
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on the way to that place
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They threw an American flag in our

Interlude 3

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(face)

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Chorus 3
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Well, I'm living here in Allentown
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And it's hard to keep a good man down
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Em Em 
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But I won't be getting up today
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Interlude 4

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Bridge 2

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Outro 1
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And it's getting very hard to stay
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And we're living here in Allentown
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