Allentown Lyrics - The Complete Hits Collection 1973-1997 - Billy Joel

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 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 

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 

And it's getting very hard to stay 

And we're living here in allentown 

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