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Verse Chord Pattern 1:
SOL LAm DO RE
Victor was born the spring of '44
SOL LAm DO RE
And never saw his father anymore
SOL DO SOL MIm
A child of sacrifice, a child of war
SOL RE MIm DO RE SOL
Another son who never had a father after Leningrad
Pattern 1:
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.
Verse Chord Pattern 2:
SOLm REm SIb
I was born in '49, a cold war kid in McCarthy time
FA RE
Stop 'em at the 38th parallel, blast those yellow Reds to Hell
SOLm REm SIb
Cold war kids were hard to kill under their desks in an air raid drill
FA
Haven't they heard we won the war
RE
What do they keep on fighting for?
Pattern 1:
Victor was sent to some Red Army town
Served out his time, became a circus clown
The greatest happiness he ever found
Was making Russian children glad, and children lived in Leningrad.
Pattern 2:
Children lived in Levittown, headed for shelter underground
'Til the Soviets turned their ships around, 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?
Pattern 1:
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.
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