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Composer: Billy Joel

Billy Joel - 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 up today
And we're living here in Allentown
Songs list of album: 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert [live] (2000)
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01    Beethoven's Ninth Symphony lyrics Add lyrics   -
02   Big Shot lyrics  
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03    Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) lyrics Add lyrics   -
04    Summer, Highland Falls lyrics Add lyrics   -
05    The Ballad of Billy the Kid lyrics Add lyrics   -
06   Don't Ask Me Why lyrics   -
07    New York State of Mind lyrics Add lyrics   -
08   I've Loved These Days lyrics   -
09   My Life lyrics   -
10   Allentown lyrics   -
11    Prelude/Angry Young Man lyrics Add lyrics   -
12    Only the Good Die Young lyrics Add lyrics   -
13    I Go to Extremes lyrics Add lyrics   -
14   Goodnight Saigon lyrics   -
15    We Didn't Start the Fire lyrics Add lyrics   -
16    Big Man on Mulberry Street lyrics Add lyrics   -
17    2000 Years lyrics Add lyrics   -
18    Auld Lang Syne lyrics Add lyrics   -
19   River of Dreams lyrics   -
20    Scenes from an Italian Restaurant lyrics Add lyrics   -
21    Dance to the Music lyrics Add lyrics   -
22    Honky Tonk Women lyrics Add lyrics   -
23    It's Still Rock & Roll to Me lyrics Add lyrics   -
24   You May Be Right lyrics   -
25   This Night lyrics   -
 

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