Allentown

	 
[Intro]
| C(add9)  Em D | G/B | C(add9)  Em D | G/B |
| C(add9)  Em D | G Gsus4 G   |
[Strophe]
           Em7            Asus4 D  Dsus2 D 
Well we're living here in Allen-town 
            Am7             D7sus4    G  Gsus2 G 
And they're closing all the factories down 
       Em7               A       Bm 
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time 
F#m/A       G6     D/F#        Asus4 A 
Filling out forms, standing in line
[Strophe]
        Em7                Asus4        D  Dsus2 D 
Well our fathers fought the Second World War 
            Am7             D7sus4     G  Gsus2 G 
Spent their weekends on the Jersey shore 
        Em7            A Bm 
Met our mothers in the USO 
F#m/A         G6     D/F#              Asus  A 
Asked them to dance, danced with them slow 
          Em7            Asus4    D Dsus4 Dsus2 D (break) 
And we're living here in Allentown
[Pont]
        F/A              G/B     C  G/C  C 
But the restlessness was handed down 
         Am           D7sus4 D7   Em G/B   C D  
And it's getting very hard   to stay
[Intro]
| C(add9)  Em D | G/B | C(add9)  Em D | G/B |
| C(add9)  Em D | G Gsus4 G   |
[Strophe]
           Em7             Asus4 D  Dsus2 D 
Well we're waiting here in Allen-town 
        Am7          D7sus4   G  Gsus2 G 
For the Pennsylvania we never found 
        Em7          A         Bm 
For the promises our teachers gave 
F#m/A        G6    D/F#    Asus4 A 
If we worked hard, if we behaved
[Strophe]
       Em7         Asus4        D  Dsus2 D 
So the graduations hang on the wall 
         Am7          D7sus4        G  Gsus2 G 
But they never really helped us at all 
        Em7             A        Bm 
No they never taught us what was real 
F#m/A    G6    D/F#       Asus4 A 
Iron and coke, chromium steel 
          Em7             Asus4    D  Dsus2 D (break) 
And we're waiting here in Allentown
[Pont]
            F/A           G/B             C  G/C  C 
But they've taken all the coal from the ground 
        Am           D7sus4  D7   Em G/B   C D  
And the union people crawled a-way
[Instrumentale]
| C(add9)  Em D | G/B | C(add9)  Em D | [F]
[Interlude]
F             G/F       F 
  Every child had a pretty good shot 
F                G/F             Bb/F 
 To get at least as far as their old man got 
F                G/F               F 
 But something happened on the way to that place 
F               G       C           [Cadd9] 
 They threw an American flag in our face
[Instrumentale]
| C(add9)  Em D | G/B | C(add9)  Em D | G/B |
| C(add9)  Em D | G Gsus4 G   |
[Strophe]
         Em7            Asus4 D  Dsus2 D 
Well I'm living here in Allen-town 
         F/A            G/B      C  G/C  C 
And it's hard to keep a good man down 
      Am               D7sus4 D7   Em G/B   C D  
But I won't be getting up     to-day
[Instrumentale]
| C(add9)  Em D | G/B | C(add9)  Em D | [F]

| F G/F | F | F G/F | Bb/F | F G/F | F | F G |2/4 C |
[Outro]
  C(add9)  Em D   G/B   C(add9)  Em D   G/B  
                                         And it's 
  C(add9)    Em   D   Em G/B   C D  
 Getting very hard to stay 
          Am             D7sus4    G Gsus4 Gsus2 G 
And we're living here in Allentown