[Intro]
[C] [D] [G] 3x

[A]          [Em]             [A]    [D]
Well we're living here in Allentown
            [Am]              [D]         [G]
And they're closing all the factories down
       [Em]                [A]       [Bm]
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
[A]           [Em]
Filling out forms
[D]           [A]
Standing in line.

         [Em]                 [A]            [D]
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
            [Am]              [D]      [G]
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
        [Em]             [A] [Bm]  [A]
Met our mothers at the USO
[A]             [Em]
Asked them to dance
[D]                [A]   [A7]
Danced with them slow

          [Em]             [A]    [D]
And we're living here in Allentown.
        [F]                [G]      [C]
But the restlessness was handed down
         [Am]           [D]       [Em]                    [Bm]       [C]
And it's getting very hard to staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
[D] [G]

[C] [D] [G] 2x

[A]          [Em]              [A]    [D]
Well we're waiting here in Allentown
        [Am]           [D]        [G]
For the Pennsylvania we never found
        [Em]           [A]        [Bm]
For the promises our teachers gave
[A]            [Em]
If we worked hard
[D]       [A]    [A7]
If we behaved.

       [Em]          [A]           [D]
So the graduations hang on the wall
         [Am]           [D]            [G]
But they never really helped us at all
        [Em]              [A]        [Bm]
No they never taught us what was real
[A]       [Em]
Iron or coke,
[D]        [A]    [A7]
Chromium steel.

          [Em]              [A]    [D]
And we're waiting here in Allentown.
            [F]             [G]             [C]
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
        [Am]           [D]       [Em]          [Bm]       [C] [D] [G]
And the union people crawled awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

[C] [D] [G] 2x

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

[C] [D] [G] 2x

[A]        [Em]             [A]    [D]
Well I'm living here in Allentown
         [Am]             [D]        [G]
And it's hard to keep a good man down.
      [Am]               [D]    [Em]           [Bm]           [C] [D] [G]
But I won't be getting up todaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy

[C] [D] [G]

Guitar solo

[C] [D] [G]

         [Am]           [D]       [Em]       [Bm]     [C] [D] [G]
And it's getting very hard to staaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
          [Am]             [D]    [G]     [C] [G]
And we're living here in Allentown.