Tytuł: Allentown

• Wykonawca: Billy Joel
• Wyświetleń: 249

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