Billy Joel - Allentown

If we behaved

Filling out forms

And we're living here in allentown

And chromium steel

Spent their weekends on the jersey shore

Out in bethlehem they're killing time

Well we're living here in allentown

Standing in line

So the graduations hang on the wall

Danced with them slow

And they're closing all the factories down

Asked them to dance

Well we're waiting here in allentown

But something happened on the way to that place

Well our fathers fought the second world war

But they've taken all the coal from the ground

Well I'm living here in allentown

Met our mothers in the uso

They threw an american flag in our face

Iron and coke

If we worked hard

And we're waiting here in allentown

Every child had a pretty good shot

But the restlessness was handed down

And it's getting very hard to stay