"Leningrad" (Capo: 2nd. fret)
____Intro:
C G Dm A F C/E
Dm G F G7sus G7 C
____Verse: 1
C Dm/C F/C G/C
Viktor was born____in the spring of forty four
C Dm/C F/C G/C
And never saw____his father anymore
C7/Bb F/A Csus/G C/G D/F#
A child of sacrifice, a child of war
C/G G#dim Am F G C
Another son who never had a father after Leningrad
____Verse: 2
C Dm/C F/C G/C
Went off to school____and learned to serve the state
C Dm/C F/C G/C
Followed the rules____and drank his vodka straight
C7/Bb F/A Csus/G C/G D/F#
The only way to live was drown the hate
C/G G#dim Am
A Russian life was very sad
D G C
And such was life in Leningrad
____Bridge: 1
Cm
I was born in '49
Gm
A cold war kid in McCarthy time
Fsus F
Stop 'em at the 38th Parallel
Gsus G
Blast those yellow reds to hell
Csus Cm
And cold war kids were hard to kill
Gsus Gm
Under their desk in an air raid drill
Fsus F
Haven't they heard we won the war
Gsus G
What do they keep on fighting for?
____Verse: 3
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C Dm/C F/C G/C
Viktor was sent to some Red Army town
C Dm/C F/C G/C G/B
Served out his time, became a cir__cus clown
C7/Bb F/A Csus/G C/G D/F#
The greatest happiness he'd____ever found
C/G G#dim Am
Was making Russian children glad
F G C
And children lived in Leningrad
____Bridge: 2
Cm
But children lived in Levittown
Gm
And hid in the shelters underground
Fsus F
Until the Soviets turned their ships around
Gsus G
And tore the Cuban missiles down
Csus Cm
And in that bright October sun
Gsus Gm
We knew our childhood days were done
Fsus F
And I watched my friends go off to war
Gsus G
What do they keep on fighting for?
____Verse: 4
C Dm/C F/C G/C
And so my child and I came to this place
C Dm/C F/C G/C G/B
To meet him eye to eye and face to face
C7/Bb F/A Csus/G C/G D/F#
He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced
C/G G#dim Am
We never knew what friends we had
D G C D
Until we came to Leningrad
____Coda:
G D/G Am E/A
C/E G/B Am D/F# D (Repeat)
C D G
