Allentown by Billy Joel

C D G 3x
GEmD
Well we're living here in Allentown
CDG
And they're closing all the factories down
EmAD
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
  A      EmAD
Filling out forms - Standing in line
     GEmD
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
C    DG
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
     EmA   D
Met our mothers in the USO
    ADAD
Asked them to dance, Danced with them slow
G    EmD
And we're living here in Allentown

FGC
But the restlessness was handed down
EmCGD  Em  D
And it's getting very hard to stay

C D G  C D G
GEmD
Well we're waiting here in Allentown
CDG
For the Pennsylvania we never found
EmAD
For the promises our teachers gave
  A      EmAD
If we worked hard , If we behaved
     GEmD
So the graduations hang on the wall
C    D   G
But they never really helped us at all
     EmA   D
No they never taught us what was real
    ADA     D
Iron and coke - And chromium steel

G    EmD
And we're waiting here in Allentown

FGC
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
EmCGD  Em  D
And the union people crawled away

C D G

FGA#
Every child had a pretty good shot
FGA#
To get at least as far as their old man got
FGA#
But something happened on the way to that 

Place
FGA#
They threw an American flag in our face

C D G
G    EmD
Well I'm living here in Allentown
CDG
And it's hard to keep a good man down
EmCGD  Em  D
But I won't be getting up today   -  ay  -  ay

C D G

SOLO>  F G A#  (4x)

EmCGD  Em  D
And it's getting very hard to stay
CDG
And we're living here in Allentown

The D Chord is often lifted and dropped on the E string.
The F-G-A# part is played by sliding the F up the bridge.
Submitted by David Whitney