《What Made America Famous?》歌词

歌曲： What Made America Famous?

所属专辑：The Elektra Collection (1971-1978)

歌手： HARRY CHAPIN

时长： 06:52

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What Made America Famous - 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]