What Made America Famous? (LP版)-Harry Chapin

[ti:What Made America Famous? (LP版)] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:Verities And Balderdash] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.02]What Made America Famous? (是什么让美国出名？) (LP版) - Harry Chapin [00:03.73]Written by：Harry Chapin/Sandy Chapin [00:05.08] [00:14.22]It was the town that made America famous [00:18.12] [00:20.25]The churches full and the kids all gone to hell [00:23.74] [00:26.23]Six traffic lights and seven cops and all the streets kept clean [00:31.79] [00:32.89]The supermarket and the d**g store and the bars all doing well [00:38.00] [00:40.63]Now they were the folks that made America famous [00:45.30] [00:47.08]The local fire department stocked with shorthaired volunteers [00:52.50] [00:53.36]And on Saturday night while America boozes [00:56.77]The fire department showed dirty movies [00:59.63]The lawyer and the grocer seeing their dreams [01:02.89]Come to life on the movie screens [01:05.89]While the plumber hopes that he won't be seen [01:09.26]As he tries to hide his fears and he wipes away his tears [01:15.32] [01:17.12]But something's burning somewhere [01:19.93] [01:20.86]Does anybody care [01:25.97] [01:28.79]We were the kids that made America famous [01:32.94] [01:34.75]The kind of kids that long since drove our parents to dispair [01:39.98] [01:40.90]We were lazy long hairs dropping our [01:44.17]Lost confused and copping out [01:47.41]Convinced our futures were in doubt and trying not to care [01:52.68] [01:55.17]We lived in the house that made America famous [01:59.68] [02:01.31]It was a rundown slum the shame [02:03.64]Of all the decent folks in town [02:06.71] [02:07.65]We hippies and some welfare cases [02:10.85]Croweded families of coal black faces [02:13.92]Cramped inside some cracked old boards [02:16.77]The best that we all could afford [02:19.80]But still to nice for the rich landlord [02:22.98]To tear it down and we could hear the sound [02:28.64] [02:29.24]Of something burning somewhere [02:32.09] [02:32.96]Is anybody there [02:38.85] [02:40.30]We all lived the life that made America famous [02:45.21] [02:46.51]Our cops would make a point to shadow us around our town [02:52.38]And we love children put a swastika [02:55.60]On the bright red firehouse door [02:58.29] [02:59.00]America the beautiful it makes a body proud [03:05.26] [03:10.34]And then came the night that made America famous [03:14.68] [03:16.33]Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke [03:21.63] [03:22.57]In the tinder box trap that we hippies [03:24.93]Lived in someone struck a spark [03:28.02] [03:28.92]At first I thought I was dreaming [03:32.06]Then I saw the first flames gleaming [03:35.16]And heard the sound of children screaming [03:38.21]Coming through the smoke [03:40.64] [03:42.77]And something's burning somewhere [03:45.27] [03:46.28]Does anybody care [03:51.82] [03:53.39]It was the fire that made America famous [03:57.82] [03:59.51]The sirens wailed and the firemen [04:01.87]Stumbled sleepy from their homes [04:04.85] [04:05.40]And the plumber yelled Come on let's go [04:08.60]But they saw what was burning and said Take it slow [04:11.79]Let 'em sweat a little they'll never know [04:14.69]And besides we just cleaned the chrome [04:17.39] [04:18.49]Said the plumber I'm going alone [04:21.06] [04:25.84]He rolled on up in the fire truck [04:28.35] [04:28.96]And raised the ladder to the ledge [04:31.05] [04:31.86]Where me and my girl and a couple of kids [04:34.69]Were clinging like bats to the edge [04:37.08] [04:38.92]We staggered to salvation [04:41.17] [04:42.18]Collapsed on the street [04:43.87] [04:44.92]And I never thought that a fat man's face [04:47.66]Would ever look so sweet [04:50.99] [04:56.90]I shook his hand in the scene that made America famous [05:02.60] [05:04.32]And a smile from the heart that made America great [05:08.85] [05:11.31]You see we spent the rest of that night in the home of a man [05:15.42]I'd never known before [05:17.88] [05:19.68]It's funny when you get that close it's kind of hard to hate [05:25.08] [05:31.18]I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous [05:36.18] [05:38.02]I had the kind of a dream that maybe [05:40.95]They're still trying to teach in school [05:44.32] [05:44.87]Of the America that made America famous [05:50.54] [05:51.75]And of the people who just might understand [05:55.46]That how together yes we can [05:58.81]Create a country better than [06:01.72]The one we have made of this land [06:05.36]We have a choice to make each man [06:08.46]Who dares to dream reaching out his hand [06:11.26] [06:11.78]A prophet or just a crazy God d**n [06:15.42]Dreamer of a fool yes a crazy fool [06:22.70]There's something burning somewhere [06:26.97] [06:29.50]Does anybody care [06:34.44]Is anybody there [06:37.28] [06:37.88]Is anybody there