[ti:allentown] [ar:billy joel ] [00:00.50]Allentown [00:03.50]Billy Joel [00:15.50][00:08.50] [00:17.50]Well we're living here in Allentown [00:21.50]And they're closing all the factories down [00:26.50]Out in Bethlehem they're killing time [00:29.50]Filling out forms [00:31.50]Standing in line [00:34.50]Well our fathers fought the Second World War [00:38.50]Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore [00:42.50]Met our mothers at the USO [00:46.50]Asked them to dance [00:48.50]Danced with them slow [00:51.50]And we're living here in Allentown [00:54.50] [00:55.50]But the restlessness was handed down [00:59.50]And it's getting very hard to stay [01:15.50][01:07.50] [01:18.50]Well we're waiting here in Allentown [01:22.50]For the Pennsylvania we never found [01:26.50]For the promises our teachers gave [01:30.50]If we worked hard [01:32.50]If we behaved [01:35.50]So the graduations hang on the wall [01:39.50]But they never really helped us at all [01:43.50]No they never taught us what was real [01:47.50]Iron and coke [01:49.50]And chromium steel [02:09.50][01:55.50] [01:52.50]And we're waiting here in Allentown [01:56.50]But they've taken all the coal from the ground [02:00.50]And the union people crawled away [02:14.50]Every child has a pretty good shot [02:18.50]To get at least as far as their old man got [02:22.50]But something happened on the way to that place [02:26.50]They threw an American flag in our place [02:38.50][02:32.50] [02:41.50]Well I'm living here in Allentown [02:45.50]And it's hard to keep a good man down [02:50.50]But I won't be getting up today [03:22.50][03:10.50][03:03.50][02:58.50] [03:26.50]And it's getting very hard to stay [03:32.50]And we're living here in Allentown