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
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Billy Joel - Leningrad CHORDS by Bofjas
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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 ;) )
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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D ;)
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:
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D ;)
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