Allentown (Live in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987)-Billy Joel

[ti:Allentown] [ar:Billy Joel] [al:Piano Man/52nd Street/Kohuept ] [by:] [offset:0] [00:50.58]Well we're living here in Allentown [00:54.58]And they're closing all the factories down [00:58.64]Out in Bethlehem they're killing time [01:02.45]Filling out forms [01:04.27]Standing in line [01:07.02]Well our fathers fought the Second World War [01:11.20]Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore [01:15.39]Met our mothers in the USO [01:19.21]Asked them to dance [01:21.08]Danced with them slow [01:23.83]And we're living here in Allentown [01:28.08]But the restlessness was handed down [01:32.14]And it's getting very hard to stay [01:50.90]Well we're waiting here in Allentown [01:54.95]For the Pennsylvania we never found [01:59.09]For the promises our teachers gave [02:02.95]If we worked hard [02:04.77]If we behaved [02:07.27]So the graduations hang on the wall [02:11.46]But they never really helped us at all [02:15.52]No they never taught us what was real [02:19.21]Iron and coke [02:21.39]And chromium steel [02:24.08]And we're waiting here in Allentown [02:28.46]But they've taken all the coal from the ground [02:32.27]And the union people crawled away [02:46.04]Every child had a pretty good shot [02:49.79]To get at least as far as their old man got [02:53.92]But something happened on the way to that place [02:58.04]They threw an American flag in our face [03:06.22] [03:12.72]Well living here in AllentownI'm [03:16.78]And it's hard to keep a good man down [03:20.65]But I won't be getting up today [03:24.91]And it's getting very hard to stay [04:00.47]And we're living here in Allentown