What Made America Famous?-Harry Chapin

[ti:What Made America Famous?] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:The Elektra Collection (1971-1978)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]What Made America Famous? (是什么让美国出名？) - Harry Chapin [00:13.84]It was the town that made America famous [00:18.12] [00:20.09]The churches full and the kids all gone to hell [00:23.76] [00:26.07]Six traffic lights and seven cops [00:29.47]And all the streets kept clean [00:31.86] [00:32.81]The supermarket and the drug store [00:35.47]And the bars all doing well [00:38.27] [00:40.56]Now they were the folks that made America famous [00:45.24] [00:46.84]The local fire department stocked [00:49.86]With shorthaired volunteers [00:52.54] [00:53.12]And on Saturday night while America boozes [00:56.55]The fire department showed dirty movies [00:59.57]The lawyer and the grocer seeing their dreams [01:02.86]Come to life on the movie screens [01:05.70]While the plumber hopes that he won't be seen [01:08.80]As he tries to hide his fears and he wipes away his tears [01:15.74] [01:17.02]But something's burning somewhere [01:19.95] [01:20.66]Does anybody care [01:25.56] [01:28.62]We were the kids that made America famous [01:32.87] [01:34.70]The kind of kids that long since drove our parents to despair [01:39.87] [01:40.82]We were lazy long hairs dropping out lost confused [01:45.81]And copping out [01:47.30]Convinced our futures were in doubt [01:50.14]And trying not to care [01:52.83] [01:55.15]We lived in the house that made America famous [01:59.75] [02:01.21]It was a rundown slum the shame of [02:03.66]All the decent folks in town [02:06.85] [02:07.58]We hippies and some welfare cases [02:10.91]Crowded families with coal black faces [02:14.01]Cramped inside some cracked old boards [02:16.84]The best that we all could afford [02:19.65]But still too fine for the rich landlord [02:22.62]To ever tear it down and we could hear the sound [02:28.96]Of something burning somewhere Is anybody there [02:38.80] [02:40.24]We all lived the life that made America famous [02:44.97] [02:46.25]The cops would make a point to shadow us around our town [02:52.22]And we "love children" put a swastika [02:55.41]On the bright red firehouse door [02:58.45] [02:59.00]America the beautiful it makes a body proud [03:05.37] [03:10.21]And then came the night that made America famous [03:14.77] [03:16.13]Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke [03:21.74] [03:22.48]In the tinderbox trap that we hippies lived in [03:25.76]Someone struck a spark [03:28.29] [03:28.87]At first I thought that I was dreaming [03:31.97]Then I saw the first flames gleaming [03:34.87]And heard the sound of children screaming [03:38.26]Coming through the smoke [03:40.68] [03:42.59]And Something's burning somewhere Does anybody care [03:51.73] [03:53.50]It was the fire that made America famous [03:58.02] [03:59.53]The sirens wailed and [04:01.04]The firemen stumbled sleepy from their homes [04:05.10]And the plumber yelled: "Come on let's go " [04:08.37]They saw what was burning and said: "Take it slow [04:11.48]Let 'em sweat a little they'll never know [04:14.42]And besides we just cleaned the chrome " [04:17.67] [04:18.37]Said the plumber: "Then I'm going alone " [04:21.42] [04:25.80]Well he rolled on up in the fire truck [04:28.70]And raised the ladder to the ledge [04:31.24] [04:31.84]Where me and my girl and a couple of kids [04:34.56]Were clinging like bats to the edge [04:37.35] [04:39.07]We staggered to salvation [04:41.25] [04:42.15]Collapsed on the street [04:43.97] [04:44.50]And I never thought that a fat man's face [04:47.60]Would ever look so sweet [04:51.64] [04:56.76]I shook his hand in the scene that made America famous [05:02.88] [05:04.29]And a smile from the heart that made America great [05:08.94] [05:11.35]We spent the rest of that night [05:13.26]In the home of this man that we never known before [05:17.97] [05:19.56]It's funny when you get that close [05:22.13]It's kind of hard to hate [05:31.06]I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous [05:36.46] [05:37.92]I had the kind of a dream that maybe [05:40.90]They're still trying to teach in school [05:44.74]Of the America that made America famous and [05:51.95]Of the people who just might understand [05:55.41]That how together yes we can [05:58.70]Create a country better than [06:01.70]The one we have made of this land [06:05.28]We have a choice to make each man [06:08.44]Who dares to dream reaching out his hand [06:11.70]A prophet or just a crazy God damn [06:15.17]Dreamer of a fool yes a crazy fool [06:22.49] [06:23.09]There's something burning somewhere [06:27.38] [06:29.42]Does anybody care [06:34.38]Is anybody there [06:37.31] [06:37.86]Is anybody there