Allentown lyrics

Artist  : Billy Joel 
Song : Allentown



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Well we're living here in Allentown
And
they're closing all the factories down
Out in
Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out
forms
Standing in line
Well our fathers
fought the Second World War
Spent their
weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers
in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with
them slow
And we're living here in
Allentown
But the restlessness was handed
down
And it's getting very hard to
stay
Well we're waiting here in
Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never
found
For the promises our teachers gave
If
we worked hard
If we behaved
So the
graduations hang on the wall
But they never
really helped us at all
No they never taught
us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium
steel
And we're waiting here in
Allentown
But they've taken all the coal from
the ground
And the union people crawled
away
Every child has a pretty good shot
To
get at least as far as their old man got
But
something happened on the way to that
place
They threw an American flag in our
place
Well I'm living here in Allentown
And
it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't
be getting very hard to stay
And we're living
here in Allentown