Ssssh! Ugh! Ha!
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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, filling out forms, 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 Shoreˇ¦Met our mothers in the USO
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Asked them to dance, 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, hey hey hey, whoa ohˇ¦Ssssh! Ugh! Ha!
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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, if we worked hard, 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 & Coke & chromium steel, 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, hey hey hey
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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 fa-a-a-ace
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Wo ho...Ssssh! Ugh! Ha!
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Well, I'm living here in Allentown & it's hard to keep a good man down
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But I won't be getting up today, hey hey hey
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Hey, hey, hey, whoa oh, ssssh! Ugh! Ha!
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And it's getting very hard to stay
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And we're living here in Allentown
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Allentown (12 Gardens Live)
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Billy Joel |