Billy Joel - Leningrad - Karaoke Version from Zoom Karaoke

This karaoke version has been produced by Zoom Karaoke and the recording rights are owned and controlled by Zoom Entertainments Limited - Song lyrics: VIKTOR WAS BORN IN THE SPRING OF FORTY-FOUR AND NEVER SAW HIS FATHER ANYMORE A CHILD OF SACRIFICE A CHILD OF WAR ANOTHER SON WHO NEVER HAD A FATHER AFTER LENINGRAD 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 I WAS BORN IN FORTY-NINE A COLD WAR KID IN McCARTHY TIME STOP ’EM AT THE THIRTY-EIGHTH PARALLEL BLAST THOSE YELLOW REDS TO HELL AND COLD WAR KIDS WERE HARD TO KILL UNDER THEIR DESKS IN AN AIR RAID DRILL HAVEN’T THEY HEARD WE WON THE WAR WHAT DO THEY KEEP ON FIGHTIN’ 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 BUT CHILDREN LIVED IN LEVITTOWN AND HID IN THE SHELTERS UNDERGROUND ’TIL THE SOVIETS TURNED THEIR SHIPS AROUND AND 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 FIGHTIN’ FOR 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