Well we're living here in Allentown, and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling half-horns and standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War, spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers from the U.S.O., asked them to dance, dance with us slow. And we're living here in Allentown, but the restlessness was handed down, and it's getting very hard to stand. Yeah! Oh! Well we're waiting here in Allentown, for the Pennsylvania we never found. For the promises our teachers gave, if we work hard, if we behave. So the graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all. No, they never told us what was real, iron and coal, chromium, cedar. And we're waiting here in Allentown, but they've taken all the coal from the ground, and the Union people throw it away. Yeah! Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. Something happened on the way to that place, they threw an American flag in our face. Oh! Well I'm living here in Allentown, and it's hard to keep a good man down. Well I won't be getting up today. Yeah! Oh! Yeah! Oh! And it's getting very hard to stand. And we're living here in Allentown. Yeah!