Billy Joel – Leningrad tab
Chords:
----------------------------------------------------------- Billy Joel - Leningrad CHORDS by Bofjas ----------------------------------------------------------- Key: D Works for piano/guitar, though guitarplayers would heavily rely on a bass player. The Song is divided into two chord progressions og "patterns" if you prefer that. We will call them Pattern A & Pattern B. Lyrics below are marked with the pattern to follow. For those who doesn't know. "C/G" means you play a "C", but the bass goes on a "G". So if you wanna play this alone on one guitar, you will have to change the chord or your strumming so that the lowest of the strings in motion will represent the bass (i.t.c "G") For example: To play "C/G" you would play a normal open C, but but hit the low E string on the 3rd fret with you pinky. (Low E 3rd fret = G) Hehe... okey... now then.. the chords! Intro chords (Piano Only, but works for guitar too ;) ) ------------------------- D A/D D D A Em B/E Em Em B G G D D G G A/D A7 Bm G A A7 D (It's a little hard to tell you where to change chords you'll have to figure out that yourself ;) ) Definition to Pattern A: ------------------------ D Em/D G/D A/D Viktor was born in the spring of ´44 D Em/D G/D A/D And never saw his father anymore D/C G/B D/A E/F# A child of sacrifice, a child of war D/F# Bm7 G A D Another son who never had a father after Leningrad Follows Pattern A: ------------------------- Went off to school and learned to serve the state Followed the rules and drank his vodka straight The only way to live was drown the hate A Russian life was very sad And such was life in Leningrad Definition of Pattern B: ------------------------- Dm I was born in ´49 Dm/A Am A cold war kid in McCarthy time C/G G Stop ´em at the 38th Parallel A Blast those yellow reds to hell Dm And cold war kids were hard to kill Dm/A Am Under their desk in an air raid drill C/G G Haven´t they heard we won the war A What do they keep on fighting for? Follows Pattern A: ------------------------- 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 Follows Pattern B: ------------------------- But children lived in Levittown And hid in the shelters underground Until the Soviets turned their ships around And tore the Cuban missiles down And in that bright October sun We knew our childhood days were done And I watched my friends go off to war What do they keep on fighting for? Follows Pattern A: ------------------------- And so my child and I came 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 Outro: ------------------------ D A/D D D A Em B/E Em Em B G G D D G G A/D A7 Bm G A A7 D D A/D D D A Em B/E Em Em B G G D D G G A/D A7 Bm G A A7 End on: ------------------------ D ;)