D  A/C# D  Bm A     B/D# Em  B/D# Em  A/C# B
G    D/F#    Em    A/C#  A  G/B  G  A  A/C#  D


[Verse 1]
D        Em/D     G/D                A/D
  Victor was born,    the Spring of ‘44
D           Em/D  G/D           A/D
  And never saw      his father anymore
D/C          G/B       Dsus/A          E7/G#
  A child of sacrifice,     a child of war
D/A        Bbdim         Bm     G      A        D
  Another son who never had a father after Leningrad


[Verse 2]
(D)      Em/D      G/D               A/D
Went off to school    and learned to serve the state
D              Em/D  G/D               A/D
  Followed the rules     and drank his vodka straight
D/C        G/B        Dsus/A               E7/G#
  The only way to live      was drown the hate
D/A          Bbdim           Bm           Em     A     D
  A Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad


[Bridge 1]
Dm                     Asus              Am
  I was born in ‘49, a cold war kid in McCarthy time
Gsus                 G         Asus               A
Stop ‘em at the 38th parallel, blast those yellow reds to hell
Dsus               Dm            Asus                    Am
Cold war kids were hard to kill, under their desks in an air raid drill
Gsus                  G            Asus                 A              A7
Haven’t they heard we won the war, what do they keep on fighting for?


[Verse 3]
D        Em/D     G/D            A/D
  Victor was sent    to some red army town
D                Em/D  G/D        A/D
  Served out his time,    became a circus clown
D/C            G/B      Dsus/A        E7/G#
  The greatest happiness     he ever found
D/A          Bbdim              Bm          G          A    D
  Was making Russian children glad, and children lived in Leningrad


[Bridge 2]
Dm                                 Asus                Am
  Children lived in Levittown, and hid in the shelters underground
         Gsus                 G            Asus                A
'Til the Soviets turned their ships around, and tore the Cuban missiles down
    Dsus             Dm            Asus               Am
And in that bright October sun, we knew our childhood days were done
    Gsus                 G              Asus                 A
And I watched my friends go off to war, what do they keep on fighting for?


[Verse 4]
D        Em/D         G/D   A/D
  And so my child and I came to this place
D            Em/D    G/D    A/D
  To meet him eye to eye and face to face
D/C          G/B            Dsus/A          E7/G#
  He made my daughter laugh,     then we embraced
D/A          Bbdim               Bm        G      A   D          E
  We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad


[Outro]
A  E/G# A  F#m E     F#/A# Bm  F#/A# Bm  E/G# F#
D    A/C#    Bm    E7
A  E/G# A  F#m E     F#/A# Bm  F#/A# Bm  E/G# F#
D    A/C#    Bm    E/G#  E  D/F#  D  E  E/G#  A