Allentown chords
by Billy JoelYear: 1982
Genre: Pop
- Guitar
- TuningE A D G B E
- CapoNo capo
- C
- Em
- D
- G
- A
- Am
- Bm
- F#m
- F
- Bb
Smart scroll
Intro 1
C
Em D
G
C
Em D
G
C
Em D
G C
G
Well, we're
Verse 1
Em
living here in
A
Allen
town
D
A D
And they're
Am
closing all the
D
factories
down
G
D G
Out in
Em
Bethlehem, they're
G A
killing
time
Bm
F#m
Filling out
forms
Em
D
Standing in
line
A
Well, our
Em
fathers fought
the
A
Second World
War
D
A D
Spent their
Am
weekends on the
D
Jersey Shore
G
D G
Met
our
Em
mothers at the
G A
USO
Bm
F#m
Asked them to
dance
Em
D
Danced with them
slow
A
And we're
Em
living here in
A
Allentown
D G
D
But the
Chorus 1
F
restlessness was
G
handed
down
C
G C
And it's
Am
getting very
D
hard
to stay
Em
Bm
C
D
Interlude 1
C
Em D
G
C
Em D
G
C
Em D
G C
G
Well, we're
Verse 2
Em
waiting here in
A
Allen
town
D
A D
For the
Am
Pennsylvania
D
we never
found
G
D G
For the
Em
promises our
G A
teachers
gave
Bm
F#m
If we worked
hard
Em
D
If we be
haved
A
So the
Em
graduations
A
hang on the
wall
D
A D
But they
Am
never really
D
helped us at
all
G
D G
No, they
Em
never taught us
G A
what was
real
Bm
F#m
Iron and
coke
Em
D
Chromium
steel
A
And we're
Em
waiting here in
A
Allentown
D G
D
But they've
Chorus 2
F
taken all the
G
coal from the
ground
C
G C
And the
Am
union people
D
crawled
away
Em
Bm
C
D
Interlude 2
C
Em D
G
C
Em D
F
Bridge 1
Every child
G
had a pret
F
ty good
shot
To get
at least as
G
far as their
Bb
old man
got
F
But something
happened
G
on the way
F
to that
place
They threw
an A
G
merican
C
flag in our
Interlude 3
C
(face)
Em D
G
C
Em D
G
C
Em D
G C
G
Well, I'm
Chorus 3
Em
living here in
A
Allen
town
D
A D
And it's
F
hard to keep a
G
good man
down
C
G C
But I
Am
won't be getting
D
up
today
Em
Bm
C
D
Interlude 4
C
Em D
G
C
Em D
F
Bridge 2
G
F
F
G
Bb
F
G
F
F
G
C
Outro 1
C
Em D
G
C
Em D
G
And it's
C
getting very
Em D
hard
Em
to stay
Bm
C
D
And we're
living
Am
here in
D
Allentown
G C
G
