Billy Joel Allentown Lyrics

Allentown 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 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 has 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 place
Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good
man down
But I won't be getting very hard to stay
And we're living here
in Allentown