Allentown-Billy Joel

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[ar:Billy Joel]
[al:12 Gardens Live]
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[00:19.01]Well we're living here in Allentown
[00:23.06]And they're closing all the factories down
[00:26.82]
[00:27.53]Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
[00:31.28]Filling out forms
[00:32.78]Standing in line
[00:36.04]Well our fathers fought the Second World War
[00:40.07]Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
[00:44.39]Met our mothers in the USO
[00:48.02]Asked them to dance
[00:50.22]Danced with them slow
[00:52.98]And we're living here in Allentown
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[00:57.06]But the restlessness was handed down
[01:01.27]And it's getting very hard to stay
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[01:20.54]Well we're waiting here in Allentown
[01:24.59]For the Pennsylvania we never found
[01:28.95]For the promises our teachers gave
[01:32.81]If we worked hard
[01:34.76]If we behaved
[01:37.21]So the graduations hang on the wall
[01:41.34]But they never really helped us at all
[01:45.93]No they never taught us what was real
[01:49.61]Iron and coke
[01:51.48]And chromium steel
[01:54.17]And we're waiting here in Allentown
[01:57.74]
[01:58.82]But they've taken all the coal from the ground
[02:02.70]And the union people crawled away
[02:11.17]
[02:16.76]Every child had a pretty good shot
[02:20.70]To get at least as far as their old man got
[02:24.77]But something happened on the way to that place
[02:28.72]They threw an American flag in our face
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[02:43.85]Well living here in AllentownI'm
[02:48.08]And it's hard to keep a good man down
[02:52.20]But I won't be getting up today
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[03:28.58]And it's getting very hard to stay
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[03:35.05]And we're living here in Allentown