Intro:
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C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi
C - G5/E - D - G - C5/D - 
G9/D - G

           Em                A         D      Em7/D 
- D
Well we're    living here in   Allen -   town
            Am                D           G      
G9/D - G
And they're   closing all the   factories   down
       Em                   A         Bm
Out in    Bethlehem they're    killing   time
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       Filling out   forms -
D/F#              A4      A
      Standing in      line

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  Em7/D - D
Well our     fathers fought the    Second World    War
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C5/D - G9/D - G
Spent their     weekends on the    Jersey    Shore
        Em                A       Bm
Met our    mothers in the    US -    O
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       Asked them to    dance,
D/F#                   A4      A
      Danced with them       slow
           Em               A4        D4      D
And we're    living here in      Allen -       town
        F/A                 G7/B         C     Cadd11 - 
Em7/C - C
But the     restlessness was     handed   down
         Am              D          Em        G/B    
   C        D
And it's    getting very    hard to    stay -    ay  -     ay  -   ay

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C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi
 C - G5/E - D - G - C5/D 
- G9/D - G

            Em                  A          D         
Em7/D - D
Well we're     waiting here in    Allen -    town
        Am              D            G        
G9/D - G
For the    Pennsylvania    we never    found
        Em               A          Bm
For the    promises our    teachers    gave
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     If we worked    hard ,
D/F#             A4       A
      If we be -       haved
       Em              A             D       Em7/D - D
So the    graduations    hang on the    wall
         Am               D              G       
G9/D - G
But they    never really    helped us at    all
        Em                  A          Bm
No they    never taught us    what was    real
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       Iron and    coke -
     D/F#           A4      A
And        chromium      steel
           Em                 A4         D4      D
And we're    waiting here in        Allen -       town
            F/A              G7/B               C          
Cadd11 - Em7/C - C
But they've     taken all the    coal from the    ground
        Am               D             Em        G/B 
      C      D
And the    union people    crawled a -     way -     ay -    ay -   ay

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C - G5/E - D

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


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C - G5/E - D - G/B - G/D - Gi
 C - G5/E - D - G - C5/D 
- G9/D - G

         Em                 A          D       Em7/D 
- D
Well I'm    living here in    Allen -    town
         F/A              G/B           C      Cadd11 - 
Em7/C - C
And it's    hard to keep a    good man    down
      Am                   D         Em       G/B    
  C        D
But I    won't be getting    up to -    day -    ay -     ay  -   ay

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C - G5/E  - D

Solo:
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F - G - C

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G/D     Gi      C              G5/E       D 
   Em        G/B      C       D
    And    it's    getting very     hard    to    stay -    ay -    ay  -  ay
          Am               D          G       
C5/D - G9/D - G//
And we're   living here in    Allen -   town