歌手: HARRY CHAPIN
时长: 06:52
What Made America Famous? (是什么让美国出名?) - Harry Chapin[00:00:00]
It was the town that made America famous[00:00:13]
The churches full and the kids all gone to hell[00:00:20]
Six traffic lights and seven cops[00:00:26]
And all the streets kept clean[00:00:29]
The supermarket and the drug store[00:00:32]
And the bars all doing well[00:00:35]
Now they were the folks that made America famous[00:00:40]
The local fire department stocked[00:00:46]
With shorthaired volunteers[00:00:49]
And on Saturday night while America boozes[00:00:53]
The fire department showed dirty movies[00:00:56]
The lawyer and the grocer seeing their dreams[00:00:59]
Come to life on the movie screens[00:01:02]
While the plumber hopes that he won't be seen[00:01:05]
As he tries to hide his fears and he wipes away his tears[00:01:08]
But something's burning somewhere [00:01:17]
Does anybody care [00:01:20]
We were the kids that made America famous[00:01:28]
The kind of kids that long since drove our parents to despair[00:01:34]
We were lazy long hairs dropping out lost confused [00:01:40]
And copping out[00:01:45]
Convinced our futures were in doubt[00:01:47]
And trying not to care[00:01:50]
We lived in the house that made America famous[00:01:55]
It was a rundown slum the shame of[00:02:01]
All the decent folks in town[00:02:03]
We hippies and some welfare cases[00:02:07]
Crowded families with coal black faces[00:02:10]
Cramped inside some cracked old boards[00:02:14]
The best that we all could afford[00:02:16]
But still too fine for the rich landlord[00:02:19]
To ever tear it down and we could hear the sound[00:02:22]
Of something burning somewhere Is anybody there [00:02:28]
We all lived the life that made America famous[00:02:40]
The cops would make a point to shadow us around our town[00:02:46]
And we "love children" put a swastika[00:02:52]
On the bright red firehouse door[00:02:55]
America the beautiful it makes a body proud[00:02:59]
And then came the night that made America famous[00:03:10]
Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke [00:03:16]
In the tinderbox trap that we hippies lived in [00:03:22]
Someone struck a spark[00:03:25]
At first I thought that I was dreaming[00:03:28]
Then I saw the first flames gleaming[00:03:31]
And heard the sound of children screaming[00:03:34]
Coming through the smoke [00:03:38]
And Something's burning somewhere Does anybody care [00:03:42]
It was the fire that made America famous[00:03:53]
The sirens wailed and[00:03:59]
The firemen stumbled sleepy from their homes[00:04:01]
And the plumber yelled: "Come on let's go "[00:04:05]
They saw what was burning and said: "Take it slow[00:04:08]
Let 'em sweat a little they'll never know[00:04:11]
And besides we just cleaned the chrome "[00:04:14]
Said the plumber: "Then I'm going alone "[00:04:18]
Well he rolled on up in the fire truck[00:04:25]
And raised the ladder to the ledge[00:04:28]
Where me and my girl and a couple of kids[00:04:31]
Were clinging like bats to the edge[00:04:34]
We staggered to salvation[00:04:39]
Collapsed on the street[00:04:42]
And I never thought that a fat man's face[00:04:44]
Would ever look so sweet[00:04:47]
I shook his hand in the scene that made America famous[00:04:56]
And a smile from the heart that made America great[00:05:04]
We spent the rest of that night[00:05:11]
In the home of this man that we never known before[00:05:13]
It's funny when you get that close [00:05:19]
It's kind of hard to hate[00:05:22]
I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous[00:05:31]
I had the kind of a dream that maybe[00:05:37]
They're still trying to teach in school[00:05:40]
Of the America that made America famous and[00:05:44]
Of the people who just might understand[00:05:51]
That how together yes we can[00:05:55]
Create a country better than[00:05:58]
The one we have made of this land[00:06:01]
We have a choice to make each man[00:06:05]
Who dares to dream reaching out his hand[00:06:08]
A prophet or just a crazy God damn[00:06:11]
Dreamer of a fool yes a crazy fool[00:06:15]
There's something burning somewhere[00:06:23]
Does anybody care [00:06:29]
Is anybody there [00:06:34]
Is anybody there[00:06:37]