Leningrad by Billy Joel

Viktor was born in the spring of ´44
And never saw his (1)____________ 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 (2)__________ the state
Followed the rules and drank his vodka straight
The (3)________ way to live was drown in hate
A Russian life was very sad
And such was life in Leningrad

I was born in ´49
A cold war kid in (4)________________ time
Stop ´em at the (5)________ Parallel
Blast (6)__________ yellow reds to hell
And cold war kids were hard to kill
Under their desks in an air raid drill
Haven´t (7)________ 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 (8)________________ happiness he´d ever found
Was making Russian children glad
And children lived in Leningrad

But children (9)__________ in Levittown
And hid in the shelters underground
Until 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 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 daughter laugh, then we embraced
We never knew what friends we had
Until we (10)________ to Leningrad

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