JOEL BILLY - Allentown lyrics

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