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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: 12 Gardens Live (2006)
         Title Rating
01   Angry Young Man lyrics   -
02   My Life lyrics   -
03   Everybody Loves You Now lyrics  
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04    The Ballad of Billy the Kid lyrics Add lyrics   -
05   The Entertainer lyrics   -
06   Vienna lyrics  
5.00
07    New York State of Mind lyrics Add lyrics   -
08   The Night Is Still Young lyrics   -
09   Zanzibar lyrics   -
10    Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go out on Broadway) lyrics Add lyrics   -
11    The Great Wall of China lyrics Add lyrics   -
12   Allentown lyrics   -
13    She's Right on Time lyrics Add lyrics   -
14   Don't Ask Me Why lyrics   -
15   Laura lyrics   -
16    A Room of Our Own lyrics Add lyrics   -
17   Goodnight Saigon lyrics   -
18    Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) lyrics Add lyrics   -
19   An Innocent Man lyrics   -
20    The Downeaster "Alexa" lyrics Add lyrics   -
21    She's Always a Woman lyrics Add lyrics   -
22    Keeping the Faith lyrics Add lyrics   -
23   The River of Dreams lyrics   -
24    A Matter of Trust lyrics Add lyrics   -
25    We Didn't Start the Fire lyrics Add lyrics   -
26   Big Shot lyrics  
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27   You May Be Right lyrics   -
28    Only the Good Die Young lyrics Add lyrics   -
29    Scenes from an Italian Restaurant lyrics Add lyrics   -
30   Piano Man lyrics   -
31   And So It Goes lyrics   -
32    It's Still Rock & Roll to Me lyrics Add lyrics   -
 

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