《What Made America Famous?》歌词

[00:00:00] What Made America Famous - Harry Chapin

[00:00:13] It was the town that made America famous

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

[00:00:26] Six traffic lights and seven cops

[00:00:29] And all the streets kept clean

[00:00:32] The supermarket and the drug store

[00:00:35] And the bars all doing well

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

[00:00:46] The local fire department stocked

[00:00:49] With shorthaired volunteers

[00:00:53] And on Saturday night while America boozes

[00:00:56] The fire department showed dirty movies

[00:00:59] The lawyer and the grocer seeing their dreams

[00:01:02] Come to life on the movie screens

[00:01:05] While the plumber hopes that he won't be seen

[00:01:08] As he tries to hide his fears and he wipes away his tears

[00:01:17] But something's burning somewhere

[00:01:20] Does anybody care

[00:01:28] We were the kids that made America famous

[00:01:34] The kind of kids that long since drove our parents to despair

[00:01:40] We were lazy long hairs dropping out lost confused

[00:01:45] And copping out

[00:01:47] Convinced our futures were in doubt

[00:01:50] And trying not to care

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

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

[00:02:03] All the decent folks in town

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

[00:02:10] Crowded families with coal black faces

[00:02:14] Cramped inside some cracked old boards

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

[00:02:19] But still too fine for the rich landlord

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

[00:02:28] Of something burning somewhere Is anybody there

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

[00:02:46] The cops would make a point to shadow us around our town

[00:02:52] And we "love children" put a swastika

[00:02:55] On the bright red firehouse door

[00:02:59] America the beautiful it makes a body proud

[00:03:10] And then came the night that made America famous

[00:03:16] Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke

[00:03:22] In the tinderbox trap that we hippies lived in

[00:03:25] Someone struck a spark

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

[00:03:31] Then I saw the first flames gleaming

[00:03:34] And heard the sound of children screaming

[00:03:38] Coming through the smoke

[00:03:42] And Something's burning somewhere Does anybody care

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

[00:03:59] The sirens wailed and

[00:04:01] The firemen stumbled sleepy from their homes

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

[00:04:08] They saw what was burning and said: "Take it slow

[00:04:11] Let 'em sweat a little they'll never know

[00:04:14] And besides we just cleaned the chrome "

[00:04:18] Said the plumber: "Then I'm going alone "

[00:04:25] Well he rolled on up in the fire truck

[00:04:28] And raised the ladder to the ledge

[00:04:31] Where me and my girl and a couple of kids

[00:04:34] Were clinging like bats to the edge

[00:04:39] We staggered to salvation

[00:04:42] Collapsed on the street

[00:04:44] And I never thought that a fat man's face

[00:04:47] Would ever look so sweet

[00:04:56] I shook his hand in the scene that made America famous

[00:05:04] And a smile from the heart that made America great

[00:05:11] We spent the rest of that night

[00:05:13] In the home of this man that we never known before

[00:05:19] It's funny when you get that close

[00:05:22] It's kind of hard to hate

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

[00:05:37] I had the kind of a dream that maybe

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

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

[00:05:51] Of the people who just might understand

[00:05:55] That how together yes we can

[00:05:58] Create a country better than

[00:06:01] The one we have made of this land

[00:06:05] We have a choice to make each man

[00:06:08] Who dares to dream reaching out his hand

[00:06:11] A prophet or just a crazy God damn

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

[00:06:23] There's something burning somewhere

[00:06:29] Does anybody care

[00:06:34] Is anybody there

[00:06:37] Is anybody there