《What Made America Famous?(LP版)》歌词

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

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

[00:00:14] 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 and all the streets kept clean

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

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

[00:00:47] The local fire department stocked 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

[00:01:09] 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 dispair

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:02:29] Of something burning somewhere

[00:02:32] Is anybody there

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

[00:02:46] Our 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 tinder box trap that we hippies

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

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

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

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

[00:03:38] Coming through the smoke

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

[00:03:46] Does anybody care

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

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

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

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

[00:04:08] But 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 I'm going alone

[00:04:25] 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

[00:04:38] 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] You see we spent the rest of that night in the home of a man

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

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

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

[00:05:38] 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

[00:05:51] And 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 d**n

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

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

[00:06:29] Does anybody care

[00:06:34] Is anybody there

[00:06:37] Is anybody there