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Current version of Billy Joel Lyrics Allentown (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/b/billy-joel/allentown/) Current version of the lyrics |
Version 1 of Billy Joel Lyrics Allentown (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/b/billy-joel/allentown/v1.html) Version 1 of the lyrics | |||||||||||
| Well we're living here in Allentown | Well we're living here in Allentown | |||||||||||
| And they're closing all the factories down | And they're closing all the factories down | |||||||||||
| Out in Bethlehem they're killing time | Out in Bethlehem they're killing time | |||||||||||
| Filling out forms | Filling out forms | |||||||||||
| Standing in line | Standing in line | |||||||||||
| Well our fathers fought the Second World War | Well our fathers fought the Second World War | |||||||||||
| Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore | Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore | |||||||||||
| Met our mothers in the USO | Met our mothers in the USO | |||||||||||
| Asked them to dance | Asked them to dance | |||||||||||
| Danced with them slow | Danced with them slow | |||||||||||
| And we're living here in Allentown | And we're living here in Allentown | |||||||||||
| But the restlessness was handed down | But the restlessness was handed down | |||||||||||
| And it's getting very hard to stay | And it's getting very hard to stay | |||||||||||
| Well we're waiting here in Allentown | Well we're waiting here in Allentown | |||||||||||
| For the Pennsylvania we never found | For the Pennsylvania we never found | |||||||||||
| For the promises our teachers gave | For the promises our teachers gave | |||||||||||
| If we worked hard | If we worked hard | |||||||||||
| If we behaved | If we behaved | |||||||||||
| So the graduations hang on the wall | So the graduations hang on the wall | |||||||||||
| But they never really helped us at all | But they never really helped us at all | |||||||||||
| No they never taught us what was real | No they never taught us what was real | |||||||||||
| 1 | Iron and coal | Iron and coke | 1 | |||||||||
| And chromium steel | And chromium steel | |||||||||||
| And we're waiting here in Allentown | And we're waiting here in Allentown | |||||||||||
| But they've taken all the coal from the ground | But they've taken all the coal from the ground | |||||||||||
| And the union people crawled away | And the union people crawled away | |||||||||||
| Every child has a pretty good shot | Every child has a pretty good shot | |||||||||||
| To get at least as far as their old man got | To get at least as far as their old man got | |||||||||||
| But something happened on the way to that place | But something happened on the way to that place | |||||||||||
| They threw an American flag in our place | They threw an American flag in our place | |||||||||||
| Well I'm living here in Allentown | Well I'm living here in Allentown | |||||||||||
| And it's hard to keep a good man down | And it's hard to keep a good man down | |||||||||||
| But I won't be getting up today | But I won't be getting up today | |||||||||||
| And we're living here in Allentown | And we're living here in Allentown | |||||||||||
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