Allentown
By
Billy Joel
Album
The Nylon Curtain
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(train whistle blows)
("Allentown")
♪ 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 ♪
♪ Oh oh oh ♪
♪ 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 had 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 face ♪
♪ Oh oh oh ♪
♪ Well I'm living here in Allentown ♪
♪ And it's hard to keep a good man down ♪
♪ But I won't be getting up today ♪
♪ Hey hey hey, oh oh oh ♪
♪ And it's getting very hard to stay ♪
♪ And we're living here in Allentown ♪
