[Intro]
[C] [Dm] [C] [F] 3x

[Verse 1]
[C]          [Dm]             [C]    [F]
Well we're living here in Allentown
            [Gm]              [F]         [A#]
And they're closing all the factories down
       [Dm]                [C]       [Am]
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
[C]           [Dm]
Filling out forms
[F]           [C]
Standing in line.

         [Dm]                 [C]            [F]
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
            [Gm]              [F]      [A#]
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
        [Dm]             [C Am C]
Met our mothers at the USO
[C]             [Dm]
Asked them to dance
[F]                [C G7]
Danced with them slow

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

[C] [C] [F] 2x

[C]          [Dm]              [C]    [F]
Well we're waiting here in Allentown
        [Gm]           [F]        [A#]
For the Pennsylvania we never found
        [Dm]           [C]        [Am]
For the promises our teachers gave
[C]            [Dm]
If we worked hard
[F]       [C]    [G7]
If we behaved.

       [Dm]          [C]           [F]
So the graduations hang on the wall
         [Gm]           [F]            [A#]
But they never really helped us at all
        [Dm]              [C]        [Am]
No they never taught us what was real
[C]       [Dm]
Iron or coke,
[F]        [C]    [G7]
Chromium steel.

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

[C] [F] [C] 2x

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

[C] [F] [C] 2x

[C]        [Dm]             [C]    [F]
Well I'm living here in Allentown
         [Gm]             [F]        [A#]
And it's hard to keep a good man down.
      [Gm]               [F]    [Dm]           [Am]           [C F]
But I won't be getting up todaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy

[C] [F] [C]

[Guitar solo]

[C] [F] [C]

         [Gm]           [F]       [Dm]       [Am]     [C F]
And it's getting very hard to staaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
          [Gm]             [F]    [A#]     [C] [F]
And we're living here in Allentown.