Leningrad Lyrics

Billy Joel - Leningrad Lyrics

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VICTO WAS BORN IN THE SPRING OF '44

AND NEVER SAW HIS FATHER ANYMORE

A CHILD OF SACRAFICE A CHILD OF WAR

ANOTHER SON WHO NEVER HAD A FATHER AFTER LENINGRAD



WENT OF TO SCHOOL AND LEARN TO SERVE THE STATE

FOLLOWED THE RULES AND DRUNK HIS VODKA STRAIGHT

THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE WAS DROWN THE HATE

AND RUSSIAN LIFE WAS VERY SAD

AND SUCH WAS LIVE IN LENINGRAD



I WAS BORN IN FORTY NINE

A COLD WAR KID IN MCCARTHY TIME

STOP'EM AT THE THIRTYEIGHT PARALLEL

BLAST THOSE YELLOW REDS TO HELL

COLD WAR KODS WERE HARD TO KILL

UNDER THERE DESK IN AN AIR RAID DRILL

HAVEN'T THEY HEARD WE WON THE WAR

WHAT DO THEY KEEP ON FIGHTING FOR



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

BUD CHILDREN LIVED IN LEVITTOWN

AND HID IN THE SHELTERS UNDERGROUND

TILL THE SOVIETS TURNED THEIR SHIPS AROUND

AND TORE THE CUBAN MISSILESS 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

AND SO MY CHILD AND I CAME TO THIS PLACE

TO MEET HIM EYE TO EYE AND FACE TO FACE



HE MADE MY DAUTHER LAUGH THEN WE EMBRACED

WE NEVER KNEW WHAT FRIENDS WH HAD

UNTIL WE CAME TO LENINGRAD