Allentown lyrics

Artist	Billy Joel
Album(s)	Greatest Hits Volume Ii

Lyrics

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 staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Aaaaaaah aaahhhhh ooooooooh ooooooh ohhhhhhh

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 throw it awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaah

Every child had a pretty good shots
To get at least as far as their old man gots

But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an american flag in our face
Aaaaaah aaaaaaaaaah faaaaaaaccccceee oh oh oh

Well I'm living here in allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down

But I won't be getting up todaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy
Aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaah

*Solo*

Aaaaaaah aaaaaaah aaaaaaah oh oh oh

And it's getting very hard to staaaaaaaaaaaaaay

And we're living here in allentown

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