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