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It was the town that made
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America famous
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The churches full and the
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Six traffic lights and seven cops
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and all the streets kept clean
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The supermarket and the drug
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store
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and the bars all doing well
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Now they were the folks that
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local fire department stocked
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with short haired volunteers
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And on Saturday night while America
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Department showed dirty movies, the
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lawyer and the grocer
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come
to life on the movie screens
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that he won't be seen
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As he tries to hide his fears and he wipes
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But somethings burning somewhere
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Does anybody care?
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We were the kids that made America famous
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kind of kids that long since drove
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We were lazy long hairs dropping our,
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lost confused, and copping out
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Convinced our futures were
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in doubt and trying not to care
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It was a rundown slum, the
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Folks in town, we hippies and
some welfare cases
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Some cracked old boards,
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the best that we all could afford
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But still to nice for
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the rich
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And we could hear the sound
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of
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something burning somewhere
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there?
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We all lived the life that made
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cops would make a point to shadow
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And we love children put a Swastika on
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the bright red firehouse door
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America, the beautiful,
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it makes a body proud
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And then came the night that
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made America famous
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Was it carelessness or someone's
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In the tinder box trap that we
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hippies lived in
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Someone struck a spark at first
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I thought that I was dreaming
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Then I saw the first flames
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gleaming and heard
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The sound of children screaming
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And somethings burning
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somewhere
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care?
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Oh it was the fire that made America famous,
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the sirens wailed
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their homes and the
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Plumber yelled, ?Come on let's go?,
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but they saw what was burning
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And said, ?Take it slow, let 'em
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And besides, we just cleaned the chrome,
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?Then I'm going alone?
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Well he rolled on up in the fire
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Ladder to the ledge where me
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and my girl and a couple of kids
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Were clinging like bats to the
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edge,
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we staggered to salvation
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Collapsed on the street and I never
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thought that a fat man's face
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Would ever look so sweet
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I shook his hand in the scene
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And a smile from the heart that
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We spent the rest of that night in the
home of a man
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it's funny
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It's kind of hard to
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hate
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I went to sleep with the hope
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Trying to teach in school of the America
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understand that how together
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better than the one
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We have made of this land,
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reaching out his hand
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A prophet or just a crazy god
damn dreamer of a fool
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And something burning somewhere
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