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