《What Made America Famous?(LP版)》歌词

歌曲： What Made America Famous?(LP版)

所属专辑：Verities And Balderdash

歌手： HARRY CHAPIN

时长： 06:52

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What Made America Famous? (是什么让美国出名？) (LP版) - Harry Chapin[00:00:01]

Written by：Harry Chapin/Sandy Chapin[00:00:03]

It was the town that made America famous[00:00:14]

The churches full and the kids all gone to hell[00:00:20]

Six traffic lights and seven cops and all the streets kept clean[00:00:26]

The supermarket and the drug store and the bars all doing well[00:00:32]

Now they were the folks that made America famous[00:00:40]

The local fire department stocked with shorthaired volunteers[00:00:47]

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[00:01:09]

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 dispair[00:01:34]

We were lazy long hairs dropping our[00:01:40]

Lost confused and copping out[00:01:44]

Convinced our futures were in doubt and trying not to care[00:01:47]

We lived in the house that made America famous[00:01:55]

It was a rundown slum the shame[00:02:01]

Of all the decent folks in town[00:02:03]

We hippies and some welfare cases[00:02:07]

Croweded families of coal black faces[00:02:10]

Cramped inside some cracked old boards[00:02:13]

The best that we all could afford[00:02:16]

But still to nice for the rich landlord[00:02:19]

To tear it down and we could hear the sound[00:02:22]

Of something burning somewhere[00:02:29]

Is anybody there[00:02:32]

We all lived the life that made America famous[00:02:40]

Our 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 tinder box trap that we hippies[00:03:22]

Lived in someone struck a spark[00:03:24]

At first I thought I was dreaming[00:03:28]

Then I saw the first flames gleaming[00:03:32]

And heard the sound of children screaming[00:03:35]

Coming through the smoke[00:03:38]

And something's burning somewhere[00:03:42]

Does anybody care[00:03:46]

It was the fire that made America famous[00:03:53]

The sirens wailed and the firemen[00:03:59]

Stumbled sleepy from their homes[00:04:01]

And the plumber yelled Come on let's go[00:04:05]

But 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 I'm going alone[00:04:18]

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[00:04:38]

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]

You see we spent the rest of that night in the home of a man[00:05:11]

I'd never known before[00:05:15]

It's funny when you get that close it's kind of hard to hate[00:05:19]

I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous[00:05:31]

I had the kind of a dream that maybe[00:05:38]

They're still trying to teach in school[00:05:40]

Of the America that made America famous[00:05:44]

And 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 d**n[00:06:11]

Dreamer of a fool yes a crazy fool[00:06:15]

There's something burning somewhere[00:06:22]

Does anybody care[00:06:29]

Is anybody there[00:06:34]

Is anybody there[00:06:37]