Allentown (Album Version)

Allentown (Album Version) Lyrics

Song Allentown (Album Version)
Artist Billy Joel
Album Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II
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[00:18.76] Well we're living here in Allentown
[00:23.07] And they're closing all the factories down
[00:27.14] Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
[00:31.07] Filling out forms
[00:32.89] Standing in line
[00:35.89] Well our fathers fought the Second World War
[00:39.77] Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
[00:44.08] Met our mothers in the USO
[00:47.89] Asked them to dance
[00:49.95] Danced with them slow
[00:52.90] And we're living here in Allentown
[00:56.96] But the restlessness was handed down
[01:01.20] And it's getting very hard to stay
[01:12.14]
[01:13.83] Well we're waiting here in Allentown
[01:24.33] For the Pennsylvania we never found
[01:28.33] For the promises our teachers gave
[01:32.39] If we worked hard
[01:34.21] If we behaved
[01:36.77] So the graduations hang on the wall
[01:40.96] But they never really helped us at all
[01:44.96] No they never taught us what was real
[01:48.95] Iron and coke
[01:50.76] And chromium steel
[01:53.83] And we're waiting here in Allentown
[01:58.40] But they've taken all the coal from the ground
[02:02.14] And the union people crawled away
[02:16.39] Every child had a pretty good shot
[02:20.02] To get at least as far as their old man got
[02:24.28] But something happened on the way to that place
[02:28.41] They threw an American flag in our face
[02:33.66] Well living here in AllentownI'm
[02:47.74] And it's hard to keep a good man down
[02:51.68] But I won't be getting up today
[02:59.86]
[03:28.24] And it's getting very hard to stay
[03:34.30] And we're living here in Allentown
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