Misc Musicals – Anastasia The New Broadway Musical - My Petersburg (Guitar)

 C     G            F
I grew up on the sly

         Em              Am         F
In the gutters and the streets of Petersburg

C      G             F
Just a kid on the fly

         Em             C
Getting good at getting by

Bb
In Petersburg

                     A
I've bartered for a blanket

D
Stolen for my bread

F#m
Learned to take my chances

A          D
And use my head

      A
A Russian rat is clever

C#m          F#m      B
Clever or he ends up dead

D
There are some

C#m
Who survive, some who don’t

Bm
Some give up

            F#m
Some give in, me, I won’t

E
Black and blue

        D
Welcome to

C                      F
Standing here you can see

         Em             Am        Bb
From the spires to the piers of Petersburg

C                      F
I'd be down on that quay

          Em      Am           Bb
Selling stolen souvenirs of Petersburg

A
The palaces above

         D
And alleyways below

F#m
Funny when a city

    D
Is all you know

    A
How even when you hate it

C#m              F#m       B
Something in you loves it so

                  D
That's where I learned my stuff

         C#m
In some rough company

Bm                     F#m
There's a boy growing up, who was me

E          D
All I've been

          E
All I'll be

       Eb
We can do what we're told

       Dm
We can go where we're lead

        Gm                      Cm          F
But I learned from my father to see what's ahead

C
Nothing here to hold me

G
No one that I owe

C              G
Funny how a boy can grow

D               A                             B
Funny how a city tells you when it's time to go

D
There are some

         C#m
Who have walls yet to climb

Bm
You and I

        F#m
On the fly, just in time

Bm
But tonight

          D
There’s a sky

             C#m  F#
And quite a view

Bm       C#m A D E
Welcome to

          A     D      A
My Petersburg