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Related: About this forumBilly Joel - Allentown (NO TPP)
From LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141086385
Snip: U.S. Steel had announced on March 31 its plans to idle some production at Minntac as a result of an oversupply of iron ore due to continued low demand for its American-made steel a problem made critical in recent months by the ongoing flood of foreign steel made with cheap foreign iron ore.
BILLY JOEL LYRICS
"Allentown"
Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we're living here in Allentown
But the restlessness was handed down
And it's getting very hard to stay
Well we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium steel
And we're waiting here in Allentown
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away
Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face
Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't be getting up today
And it's getting very hard to stay
And we're living here in Allentown
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Billy Joel - Allentown (NO TPP) (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
May 2015
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femmocrat
(28,394 posts)1. This is one of my favorite songs!
Thanks, Steve.
Nevada Blue
(130 posts)2. just saw him in KC on the 1st
and he played this song.
It is more relevant today than ever.
Thanks for posting it.
Koch Ebola
(831 posts)3. I ache for songs like this.
I am waiting for the next artistic renaissance...you can your....never mind.
midnight
(26,624 posts)4. Excellent ballad to the destructions that rolls out with these awful trade agreements.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)5. Great
I am so sick of hearing about the way the working man/woman is getting screwed
the same is happening in Canada, England and elsewhere .... we must rise up like they did in Alberta, CA ... "People have the Power"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=12&v=vbLGG5UGEKw