Biography:
Billy Joel (born William Martin Joel on May 9, 1949 in Bronx, New York, USA) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become a multi-million-selling recording artist. Joel recorded many popular hit songs and albums from 1971 until he stopped recording pop/rock music in 1993. He is one of the very few rock (or even pop) artists to have Top 10 hits in the '70s, '80s, and '90s.
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Other songs:
- Allentown
- And So It Goes
- Big Shot
- Captain Jack
- Christie Lee
- Don't Ask Me Why
- Down Easter Alexa
- Goodnight My Angel (+goodnight Moon By Eric Whitacre)
- Goodnight Saigon
- Honesty
- It's Still Rock And Roll To Me
- Just The Way You Are
- Laura
- Longest Time
- Lullabye (goodnight, My Angel)
- Movin' Out
- Movin' Out (anthony's Song)
- My Life
- New York State Of Mind
- Only The Good Die Young
- Piano Man
- River Of Dreams
- Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
- She's Always A Woman
- She's Got A Way
- She's Got A Way (live Version)
- The Longest Time
- The Stranger
- Two Thousand Years
- Uptown Girl
- Vienna
- We Didn't Start The Fire
- You May Be Right
- It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me
- She’s Always A Woman To Me
- Vienna Waits For You
- 52Nd Street
- A Matter Of Trust
- Aint No Crime
- All About Soul
- All For Leyna
- Always A Woman
- An Innocent Man
- Angry Young Man
- Baby Grand
- Ballad Of Billy The Kid
- Big Man On Mulberry Street
- Blonde Over Blue
- Cetait Toi You Were The One
- Christmas In Fallujah
- Close To The Borderline
- Dont Ask Me Why
- Down Easters Alexa
- Entertainer
- Everybody Has A Dream
- Everybody Loves You Now
- Falling Of The Rain
- Famous Last Words
- Get It Right The First Time
- Getting Closer
- Goodnight My Angel
- Got To Begin Again
- Great Suburban Showdown
- Half A Mile Away
- Hey Girl
- I Dont Want To Be Alone
- I Go To Extremes
- If I Only Had The Words To Tell You
- Its Still Rock And Roll To Me
- Ive Loved These Days
- James
- Keeping The Faith
- Last Of The Big Time Spenders
- Leave A Tender Moment Alone
- Leningrad
- Light As The Breeze
- Los Angelenos
- Lullabye Goodnight My Angel
- Maybe Im Amazed
- Miami 2017
- Modern Woman
- Movin Out
- No Mans Land
- Oyster Bay
- Pressure
- Roberta
- Rosalindas Eyes
- Say Goodbye To Hollywood
- Shades Of Grey
- Shameless
- Shes Always A Woman
- Shes Got A Way
- Shes Right On Time
- Sleeping With The Television On
- Sometimes A Fantasy
- Somewhere Along The Line
- Souvenir
- State Of Grace
- Stop In Nevada
- Storm Front
- Streetlife Serenader
- Summer Highland Falls
- Surprises
- Tell Her About It
- Temptation
- The Night Is Still Young
- The River Of Dreams
- This Is The Time
- This Night
- Through The Long Night
- To Make You Feel My Love
- Tomorrow Is Today
- Travelin Prayer
- Turn Around
- Until The Night
- We Didnt Start The Fire
- Weekend Song
- Wheres The Orchestra
- Why Judy Why
- Why Should I Worry
- Worse Comes To Worst
- You Can Make Me Free
- You Look So Good To Me
- Youre My Home
- Youre Only Human
- Zanzibar
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Billy Joel-Allentown
Intro:
G Em D C
G Em D
G Em D C
G Em D G Gsus4 G
(Verse)
Em Em7/A D
Well we're living here in Allentown
Am Am7/D G
And they're closing all the factories down
Em7 A7 Bm
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
F#m/A Em7/G
Filling out forms, standing in line
Em/A A
(verse)
Em Em7/A D
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Am Am7/D G
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Em7 A7 Bm
Met our mothers in the USO
F#m/A Em7/G
Asked them to dance, danced with them slow
Em Em/A Em7 D G Em7/A D
And we're living here in Allentown
(Chorus)
F/A G/B
But the restlessness was handed down
Am Am7/D D
And it's getting very hard to stay
Em Bm C D
(Intro x.5)
(Verse)
Em Em7/A D
Well we're waiting here in Allentown
Am Am7/D G
For the Pennsylvania we never found
Em7 A7 Bm
For the promises our teachers gave
F#m/A Em7/G
If we worked hard, if we behaved
Em/A A
(Verse)
Em Em7/A D
So the graduations hang on the wall
Am Am7/D G
But they never really helped us at all
Em7 A7 Bm
No they never taught us what was real
F#m/A Em7/G
Iron and coke, chromium steel
Em/A A
And we're waiting here in Allentown
(Choruse
F/A G/B
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
Am Am7/D D
And the union people crawled away
Em Bm C D
(Intro x.5)
(Bridge)
F G/F F
Every child has a pretty good shot
F G/F Bb/F
To get at least as far as their old man got
F G/F F
But something happened on the way to that place
F G C
They threw an American flag in our face
Em Em7/A D
Well I'm living here in Allentown
Am Am7/D G
And it's hard to keep a good man down
F/A G/B
But I won't be getting up today
Em Bm C D
(Bridge Chords)
F/A G/B
And it's getting very hard to stay
Em Bm C D
Am7 Am7/D
And we're living here in Allentown
C Am7/D G
Intro:
G Em D C
G Em D
G Em D C
G Em D G Gsus4 G
(Verse)
Em Em7/A D
Well we're living here in Allentown
Am Am7/D G
And they're closing all the factories down
Em7 A7 Bm
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
F#m/A Em7/G
Filling out forms, standing in line
Em/A A
(verse)
Em Em7/A D
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Am Am7/D G
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Em7 A7 Bm
Met our mothers in the USO
F#m/A Em7/G
Asked them to dance, danced with them slow
Em Em/A Em7 D G Em7/A D
And we're living here in Allentown
(Chorus)
F/A G/B
But the restlessness was handed down
Am Am7/D D
And it's getting very hard to stay
Em Bm C D
(Intro x.5)
(Verse)
Em Em7/A D
Well we're waiting here in Allentown
Am Am7/D G
For the Pennsylvania we never found
Em7 A7 Bm
For the promises our teachers gave
F#m/A Em7/G
If we worked hard, if we behaved
Em/A A
(Verse)
Em Em7/A D
So the graduations hang on the wall
Am Am7/D G
But they never really helped us at all
Em7 A7 Bm
No they never taught us what was real
F#m/A Em7/G
Iron and coke, chromium steel
Em/A A
And we're waiting here in Allentown
(Choruse
F/A G/B
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
Am Am7/D D
And the union people crawled away
Em Bm C D
(Intro x.5)
(Bridge)
F G/F F
Every child has a pretty good shot
F G/F Bb/F
To get at least as far as their old man got
F G/F F
But something happened on the way to that place
F G C
They threw an American flag in our face
Em Em7/A D
Well I'm living here in Allentown
Am Am7/D G
And it's hard to keep a good man down
F/A G/B
But I won't be getting up today
Em Bm C D
(Bridge Chords)
F/A G/B
And it's getting very hard to stay
Em Bm C D
Am7 Am7/D
And we're living here in Allentown
C Am7/D G
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