My Petersburg

Anastasia

   
   
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   
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E♭9 A♭sus2 D♭(add2)

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   
     
I grew up on the sly in the

    
  
 
 
  

         
 

      
         
Cm7 Fm7 A♭(add4)/G♭ D♭sus2 E♭sus2 A♭sus2

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5

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gut ters and the streets of Pe ters burg. Just a kid on the fly

              
 
 
          
 

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            
   
8 D♭(add2) Cm7 Fm7 G♭ D♭

 

get ting good


at get ting by in Pe ters burg.

          

       
 
        
 
cresc.
           
       


11 G♭ D♭ G♭ E♭ F5 F4/A F5/B♭ C5


           
I've bar tered for a blan ket, sto len for my bread,

           

            
      
       
 


    
     


                    

14 F5/D F5/A Fsus/E♭ F/E♭ C5/B♭ F5/C F5/A F5/E F5/D

learned to take my chanc es and use my head. A Rus sian rat is clev er. Clev

    
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    
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  
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  
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  
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   

  
      
        

           
17 F5/E F5 Gsus G

 
er or he ends up dead! Boils down to:

       
          

     



        


    
            

     
               
F5/B♭ F5/A B♭5/G A7♯9
20

    
there are some who sur vive. Some who don't. Some give up. Some give in.

                   
                    
               
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               
         

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                   
23 F/5F# B♭5/G B♭5/C

  
Me, I won't! Black and blue, wel come to my Pe ters burg.

           
                     


       
   
 

       
 


      
26 Fsus2 F5 B♭sus2 E♭ A♭sus A♭ D♭sus2

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                              
             
   
 
  

   
            
          



    

    
E♭7(no3) E♭7sus

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A♭5 D♭sus2

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29

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          
Stand ing here, you can see from the

            

       
    
             
   
 
       
          
    
      

       
           
32 Cm7 Fm7 A♭/G♭ E♭7sus A♭5 D♭sus2


         
spires to the piers of Pe ters burg! I'd be down on that quay

                         
                 
        
       
  

        
    

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 
             
35 Cm7 Fm7 G♭maj7 D♭/G♭ G♭

   
sell ing sto len sou ve nirs of Pe ters burg!

        
          
                   
          
 
        
           
           

                  
D♭/G♭ G♭

 
38 E♭ F5 F5/A F5/B♭ C5


The pal ac es a bove and al ley ways be low.

                         

         
       
 
    


    
       

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            

 
 
  
F5/A

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41 F5/D Fsus/E♭ F/E♭ C5/B♭ F5/C F5/A F5/E F5/D

Fun ny when a cit y is all you know. How e ven when you hate it, some

          

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
   
   
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  
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   

         
        

       
   
44 F5/E F5 Gsus G

ting in you loves it so! That's where I

     
          

 

   


        


   
            

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                 
47 F5/B♭ F5/A B♭5/G A7♯9

      
learned my stuff in some rough com pa ny! There's the boy grow ing up

                
                      
                  
        
   
         

 
             
50 F5/D B♭5/G B♭5/C

  
who was me. All I've been, all I'll be.

       
                        
 

     
cresc.

  


              
 

          
        
53 C7sus C C♭sus2 B♭m(no5)

       
We can do what we're told, we can go where we're led. But I

          
   
 




            
    
    
                 
                       

  
               
 
  
 
E♭m7 A♭9(no5) A♭m9(no5) A♭m9(no5)/E♭ D♭sus D♭ E♭5/A♭ E♭5/G

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56

  
              
learned from my fa ther to see what's a head. Noth ing here to hold me. No

            
                 
   
    
           

     
     
    

5
   
            
59 E♭5/A♭ B♭(no5)/A♭ E♭5/G

 
one that I owe. Fun ny how a boy


can grow.

                 

                    
   
           
         


        

     
62 F5/B♭ F5/A Gsus


Fun ny how a cit y tells you when it's time to go!

                 

          
  
                  
                 
   
             
65 G F5/B♭ F5/A

        
Boils down to: there are some who have walls yet to climb.

           
           
      
                  



     


     
       
68 B♭5/G A7♯9 F5/D

     
You and I, on the fly, just in time!

              
    

 
            
    
      

      
       
70 Gm(add4) C7sus Am7

 
     
But to night, there's a sky and quite a view.

       
    


   
    
    
6
        
73 C /D D B♭5/G F5/A

      

   
Wel come to

       
         
   

      
cresc.

     


     
F5/B♭ C7sus Fsus2 F5 B♭sus2

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76

my Pe ters burg.


 
                    
 
   
            
 


            

  
 
79 E♭6/9 C7sus F

               



 
          
  
           
      


   
  