Allentown piano leadsheet with chords

Level 5G110 BPMBilly Joel
Getting the sheet readyPip is finding the first note.

Well, we're living here in Allentown,

and they're closing all the factories down.

Out in Bethlehem they're killing time,

filling out forms,

standing in line.

Well, the fathers fought the Second World War,

spent their weekends on the Jersey shore,

all. met our mothers in the U S O,

asked them to dance,

and danced with them slow.

And we're living here in Allentown,

but the restlessness was handed the down and it's getting very hard to stay.

Well, we're waiting here in Allentown for the Pennsylvania we never found,

for the promises our teachers gave if we worked hard,

if we behaved.

So the graduations hang on the wall,

but they never really helped us at all.

No they never taught us what was real,

iron and coke,

and chromium steel.

And we're waiting here in Allentown,

but they've taken all the coal from the ground and the union people crawled away.

Ev'ry child had a pretty good shot

to get at least as far as their old man got,

but something happened on the way to that place.

They threw an American flag in our face.

Well, I'm living here in Allentown and it's hard to keep a good man down,

but I won't be getting up today.

And it's getting very hard to stay,

and we're living here in Allentown.

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Tip: get the words and the tune together first, then add the chords with your left hand.

Song info

Allentown by Billy Joel is a level 5 of 5 piano arrangement in the key of G at 110 BPM. A leadsheet puts the words, the melody and the chord names together, so you can play the tune with your right hand and the chords with your left.

Level
5 of 5
Key
G
Tempo
110 BPM
Chords
A Am7 Asus4 Bb Bm C D Em
Artist
Billy Joel
Genre
Pop
Style
Ballad
Mood
Melancholic

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