Allentown (Live At Santander Arena, Reading, PA / May 18, 2017) Eric Church

Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closin' all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Fillin' out forms, standin' in line
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers at the USO
Asked them to dance and danced with them slow
Yeah we're livin' here in Allentown

But the restlessness was handed down
And it's gettin' very hard to stay

Well we're waitin' here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard or if we behaved

So our graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coal and chromium steel
Well we're waitin' here in Allentown

But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away