'Allentown' by Billy Joel - Guitar Tutorial

            Intro: C D G 3x

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

	F	G		C
But the restlessness was handed down
	Em	C	G	D Em D
And it's getting very hard to stay

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

	G	   Em		D
And we're waiting here in Allentown
	F	G		C
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
	Em	C	G	D Em D
And the union people crawled away

C D G

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

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

C D G

SOLO: F G A# (4x)

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