Tonart: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Victor was born
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And never saw
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The child of sacrifice
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Child of war
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F#
Bm
Another son who never had
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A father after Leningrad
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And learned to serve his state
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And drank his vodka straight
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Was drown the hate
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The Russian life was very sad
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And such was life in Leningrad
Chorus 1
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A cold war kid in the McCarthy times
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Stop 'em at the 38th parallel
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Blast those yellow reds to hell
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Cold war kids were hard to kill
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Under their desks in an air raid drill
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Haven't they heard we won the war
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What do they keep on fighting for?
Verse 2
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Victor was sent
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Served out his time
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The greatest happiness
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He'd ever found
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Bm
Was making Russian children glad
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When children lived in Leningrad
Chorus 2
Dm
The children lived in Levittown
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Hid in the shelters underground
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Til the soviets turned their ships around
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Torn the Cuban missiles down
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And in that bright October sun
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We knew our childhood days were done
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And I watched my friends go off to war
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What do they keep on fighting for?
Verse 3
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So my child and I came to this place
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To meet him eye to eye and face to face
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He made my daughter laugh
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Then we embraced
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F#
Bm
We never knew what friends we had
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Until we came to Leningrad
Outro 1
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