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