What Made America Famous?

It was the town that made America famous

The churches full and the kids all gone to hell

Six traffic lights and seven cops and all the streets kept clean

The supermarket and the drug store and the bars all doing well

Now they were the folks that made America famous

Our local fire department stocked with short haired volunteers

And on Saturday night while America boozes the fire

Department showed dirty movies, the lawyer and the grocer

Seeing their dreams come to life on the movie screens

While the plumber hopes that he won't be seen

As he tries to hide his fears and he wipes away his tears

But somethings burning somewhere

Does anybody care?

We were the kids that made America famous

The kind of kids that long since drove our parents to despair

We were lazy long hairs dropping our, lost confused, and copping out

Convinced our futures were in doubt and trying not to care

We lived in the house that made America famous

It was a rundown slum, the shame of all the decent

Folks in town, we hippies and some welfare cases

Crowded families of coal black faces, cramped inside

Some cracked old boards, the best that we all could afford

But still to nice for the rich landlord to tear it down

And we could hear the sound of something burning somewhere

Is anybody there?

We all lived the life that made America famous

Our cops would make a point to shadow us around our town

And we love children put a Swastika on the bright red firehouse door

America, the beautiful, it makes a body proud

And then came the night that made America famous

Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke

In the tinder box trap that we hippies lived in

Someone struck a spark at first I thought that I was dreaming

Then I saw the first flames gleaming and heard

The sound of children screaming coming through the smoke

And somethings burning somewhere

Does anybody care?

Oh it was the fire that made America famous, the sirens wailed

And the firemen stumbled sleepy from their homes and the

Plumber yelled, ?Come on let's go?, but they saw what was burning

And said, ?Take it slow, let 'em sweat a little, they'll never know?

And besides, we just cleaned the chrome, said the plumber

?Then I'm going alone?

Well he rolled on up in the fire truck and raised the

Ladder to the ledge where me and my girl and a couple of kids

Were clinging like bats to the edge, we staggered to salvation

Collapsed on the street and I never thought that a fat man's face

Would ever look so sweet

I shook his hand in the scene that made America famous

And a smile from the heart that made America great

We spent the rest of that night in the home of a man

I'd never known before it's funny when you get that close

It's kind of hard to hate

I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous

I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still

Trying to teach in school of the America that made America famous

And of the people who just might understand that how together

Yes we can create a country better than the one

We have made of this land, we have a choice to make

Each man who dares to dream reaching out his hand

A prophet or just a crazy god damn dreamer of a fool

Yes a crazy fool

And something burning somewhere

Does anybody care? Is anybody there?

Is anybody there?