JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Leningrad" adalah lagu Billy Joel yang dimuat dalam albumnya, Storm Front.
Album tersebut dirilis pada 1989 di bawah naungan label Columbia Records dengan mengusung sepuluh lagu.
Album Storm Front juga dinominasikan dalam Grammy Awards untuk lima kategori sekaligus.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Somewhere Along the Line - Billy Joel
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Leningrad" dari Billy Joel.
[Intro]
D A -D Bm A B -Em B/Eb-Em A B
G D Em A G A /C# D
D Em G A
Victor was born the Spring of ‘44
D Em G A
And never saw his father anymore
D G D /A Bm/G#
A child of sacrifice, a child of war
D A# Bm G A D
Another son who never had a father after Leningrad
D Em G A
Went off to school and learned to serve the state
D Em G A
Followed the rules and drank his vodka straight
D G D /A Bm/G#
The only way to live was drown the hate
D A# Bm Em A D
A Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad
Dm A Am
I was born in ‘49, a cold war kid in McCarthy time
G A
Stop ‘em at the 38th parallel, blast those yellow reds to hell
D Dm A Am
Cold war kids were hard to kill, under their desks in an air raid drill
G A
Haven’t they heard we won the war, what do they keep on fighting for
D Em G A
Victor was sent to some red army town
D Em G A
Served out his time, became a circus clown
D G D /A Bm/G#
The greatest happiness he ever found
D A# Bm G A D
Was making Russian children glad, and children lived in Leningrad
Dm A Am
Children lived in Levittown, and hid in the shelters underground
G A
Til the soviets turned their ships around, and tore the Cuban missiles down
D Dm A Am
And in that bright October sun, we knew our childhood days were done
G A
And I watched my friends go off to war, what do they keep on fighting for
D Em G A
And so my child and I came to this place
D Em G A
To meet him eye to eye and face to face
D G D /A G#m
He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced
D A# Bm G A D E
We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad
A E -A F#m E F#/Bb-Bm F#/Bb-Bm E F#
D A Bm E
A E -A F#m E F#/Bb-Bm F#/Bb-Bm E F#
D A Bm E D E /G# A