Leningrad Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

  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 Viktor was bEm/Dorn in G/D the spring of &A/Dacute;44

D And never sEm/Daw G/D his father A/Danymore

D/C A child of sG/Bacrifice, D/A a child of wE/F♯ar

D/F♯ Another sBm7on who never had G a father aAfter LeningrDad

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

  A cDmoldA war kid in McCAmarthy time

  StC/Gop ´em at the G38th Parallel

  BlAast those yellow reds to hell

Dm And cold war kids were hard to kill

  DmUndAer their desk in an aAmir raid drill

  HC/Gaven´t they hearGd we won the war

  WhAat 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 ;)