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Viewing Lyrics for What Made America Famous:
| | | Artist: | Chapin Harry |
| | Album: | Verities And Balderdash | | Track: | What Made America Famous | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 1 | | | | Lyrics: | It was the town that made America famous.
The churches full and the kids all gone to hell.
Six traffic lights and seven cops and all the streets kept clean.
The supermarket and
the drug store and the bars all doing well.
They were the folks that made America
famous.
The local fire department stocked with shorthaired volunteers.
And on Saturday
night while America boozes
The fire department showed dirty movies,
The lawyer and the
grocer seeing their dreams
Come to life on the movie screens
While the plumber hopes
that he won't be seen
As he tries to hide his fears and he wipes away his tears.
But
something's burning somewhere. Does anybody care?
We were the kids that made America
famous.
The kind of kids that long since drove our parents to dispair.
We were lazy
long hairs dropping our, lost confused, and copping out.
Convinced our futures were in doubt
and trying not to care.
We lived in the house that made America famous.
It was a
rundown slum, the shame of all the decent folks in town.
We hippies and some welfare cases,
Croweded families of coal black faces,
Cramped inside some cracked old boards,
The
best that we all could afford
But still to nice for the rich landlord
To tear it down
and we could hear the sound
Of something burning somewhere. Is anybody there?
We
all lived the life that made America famous.
Our cops would make a point to shadow us around
our town.
And we love children put a swastika on the bright red firehouse door.
America, the beautiful, it makes a body proud.
And then came the night that made
America famous.
Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke.
In the tinder
box trap that we hippies lived in someone struck a spark.
At first I thought I was dreaming,
Then I saw the first flames gleaming
And heard the sound of children screaming
Coming through the smoke. That's when the horror broke.
Something's burning somewhere.
Does anybody care?
It was the fire that made America famous.
The sirens wailed
and the firemen stumbled sleepy from their homes.
And the plumber yelled: "Come on let's go!"
But they saw what was burning and said: "Take it slow,
Let'em sweat a little, they'll
never know
And besides, we just cleaned the chrome." Said the plumber: "I'm going alone."
He rolled on up in the fire truck
And raised the ladder to the ledge
Where
me and my girl and a couple of kids
Were clinging like bats to the edge.
We staggered to
salvation,
Collapsed on the street.
And I never thought that a fat man's face
Would ever look so sweet.
It was the scene that made America famous.
If
not the love that made America great.
You see we spent the rest of that night in the home of
a man I'd never known
before.
It's funny when you get that close it's kind of hard to
hate.
I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous.
I had the kind of a
dream that maybe they're still trying to teach in
school.
Of the America that made
America famous...and
Of the people who just might understand
That how together yes we
can
Create a country better than
The one we have made of this land,
We have a
choice to make each man
who dares to dream, reaching out his hand
A prophet or just a
crazy God damn
Dreamer of a fool - yes a crazy fool
There's something burning
somewhere.
Does anybody care?
Is anybody there | | | |
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