Intro:
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Well we're    living here in   Allen -   town
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And they're   closing all the   factories   down
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Out in    Bethlehem they're    killing   time
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       Filling out   forms -
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      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    Shore
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Met our    mothers in the    US -    O
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       Asked them to    dance,
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      Danced with them       slow
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And we're    living here in      Allen -       town
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But the     restlessness was     handed   down
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And it's    getting very    hard to    stay -    ay  -     ay  -   ay

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Well we're     waiting here in    Allen -    town
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For the    Pennsylvania    we never    found
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For the    promises our    teachers    gave
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     If we worked    hard ,
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      If we be -       haved
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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 and    coke -
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And        chromium      steel
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And we're    waiting here in        Allen -       town
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But they've     taken all the    coal from the    ground
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And the    union people    crawled a -     way -     ay -    ay -   ay

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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 A -    merican flag    in our face


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Well I'm    living here in    Allen -    town
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And it's    hard to keep a    good man    down
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But I    won't be getting    up to -    day -    ay -     ay  -   ay

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Solo:
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    And    it's    getting very     hard    to    stay -    ay -    ay  -  ay
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And we're   living here in    Allen -   town