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It was the town that made America famous 
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The churches full and the kids  gone to hell 
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Six traffic lights, and seven cops 
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And all the streets kept clean 
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The supermarket and the drug store and the bars all doin' well 
 

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Now they were the folks that made America famous 
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Our local fire department stocked with short-haired volunteers 
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And on Saturday night, while America boozes 
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The fire department showed dirty movies 
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The lawyer and the grocer seein' their dreams come to life on the movie screen 
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While the plumber hopes that he won't be seen, as he tries to hide his fears 
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And he wipes away his tears 
 

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But somethin's burinin' somewhere 
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DOES ANYBODY CARE? 
 

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We were the kids that made America famous 
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The kind of kids that long since drove our parents to despair 
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We were lazy long-hairs droppin' out 
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Lost, confused, and coppin' out 
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Convinced our futures were in doubt 
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And tryin' not to care 
 

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We lived in the house that made America famous 
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It was a run-down slum , the shame of all the decent folks in town 
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We're hippies and some welfare cases 
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Crowded families of cold, black faces 
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Cramped inside some cracked old boards 
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The best that we all could afford 
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But still too fine for the rich landlord to ever tear it down 
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And we could hear the sound 
 

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Of somethin' burnin' somewhere 
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IS ANYBODY THERE? 
 

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We all lived the life that made America famous 
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Our cops would make a point to shadow us around our town 
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And we love children put a swastika on the bright red firehouse door 
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America, the beautiful, it makes a body proud 
 

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And then came the night that made America famous 
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Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke? 
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In the tinder-box trap we hippies lived in someone struck a spark 
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At first I thought that I was dreamin' 
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Then I saw the first flames gleamin' 
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And heard the sound of children screamin' 
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Comin' through the smoke 
 

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And somethin's burnin' somewhere 
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DOES ANYBODY CARE? 
 

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Oh, it was the fire that made America famous 
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The sirens wailed and the firemen stumbled sleepin' from their homes 
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And when the plumber yelled, "C'mon, let's go!" 
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They saw what was burnin' and said, "Take it slow" 
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"Let 'em sweat a little" 
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"They'll never know" 
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"And besides, we just cleaned the chrome" 
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Said the plumber, "Then I'm goin' alone" 
 

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Well he rolled on up in the fire truck 
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And raised the ladder to the ledge 
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While me and my girl and a couple of kids were clinging like bats to the edge 
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We staggered to salvation 
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Collapsed on the street 
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And I never thought that a fat man's face 
      C5            G5 
Would ever look so sweet 
 

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I shook his hand in the scene that made America famous 
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And he smiled from the heart that made America great 
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We spent the rest of that night in the home of this man that we'd never known before 
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It's funny; when you get that close, it's kind of hard to hate 
 

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I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous 
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I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still trying to teach in school 
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O'  the America that made America famous 
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And of the people who just might understand 
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That how together, yes we can 
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Create a country better than 
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The one we have made of this land 
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We have the choice 
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To make each man 
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Who dares to dream 
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Reachin' out his hand 
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A prophet or just a crazy damn dreamer or a fraud 
       C5     G5 
Yes, a crazy fraud 
 

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and somethin's burnin' somewhere 
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DOES ANYBODY CARE? 
           G5 
IS ANYBODY THERE? 
           G5 
IS ANYBODY THERE?????
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