Billy Joel - Leningrad guitar tab

# Storm Front CD recording in C, this one in G

{title:Leningrad}

{subtitle: Billy Joel}

[G] Viktor was [Am]born [C]in spring of [D]'44

[G] And he never [Am]saw [C]his father [D]anymore

[G] A child of [Am]sacrifice, [G] a child of [A7]war

[G] Another [D]son who never [Em]had a father[C] after [D] Lenin[G]grad

[G] Went of to [Am]school [C]and learned to [D]serve the state

[G] Followed the [Am]rules [C] and drank his [D]vodka straight

[G] The only [Am]way to live [G] was drown the [A7]hate

[G] A Russian [D]life was very [Em]sad and such was [C]life in [D] Lenin[G]grad

[Gm] I was born in '49 a [Dm]cold war kid in Mc Carthy time

[F]Stop 'em a the 38th parallel [D7]blast those yellow reds to hell

And [Gm]Cold War kids were hard to kill [Dm]under their desk in an air raid drill

[F]Haven't they heard we won the war [D7]what do they keep on fighting for?

Viktor was sent to some Red Army town

Served out his time, became a circus clown

The greatest happiness he'd ever found

Was making russian children glad and children lived in Leningrad

But children lived in Levitown and hid in the shelters underground

Until the Soviets turned their ships around and tore all the cuban missles down

And in that bright Oktober sun we knew our childhood days were done

And I watched my friends go off to war what do they keep on fighting for?

And so my child and I come to this place

To meet him eye to eye and face to face

He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced

We never knew what friends we had until we came to Leningrad