Youngstown Lyrics
Bruce Springsteen
- Here in northeast Ohio
- Back in eighteen-o-three
- James and Dan Heaton
- Found the ore that was linin' Yellow Creek
- They built a blast furnace
- Here along the shore
- And they made the cannonballs
- That helped the Union win the war
- Here in Youngstown
- Here in Youngstown
- My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
- Here darlin' in Youngstown
- Well my daddy worked the furnaces
- Kept 'em hotter than hell
- I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer
- A job that'd suit the devil as well
- Taconite coke and limestone
- Fed my children and make my pay
- Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God
- Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay
- Here in Youngstown
- Here in Youngstown
- Sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
- Here darlin' in Youngstown
- Well my daddy come on the Ohio works
- When he come home from World War Two
- Now the yard's just scrap and rubble
- He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do."
- These mills they built the tanks and bombs
- That won this country's wars
- We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam
- Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for
- Here in Youngstown
- Here in Youngstown
- My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
- Here darlin' in Youngstown
- From the Monongahela valley
- To the Mesabi iron range
- To the coal mines of Appalachia
- The story's always the same
- Seven hundred tons of metal a day
- Now sir you tell me the world's changed
- Once I made you rich enough
- Rich enough to forget my name
- And Youngstown
- And Youngstown
- My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
- Here darlin' in Youngstown
- When I die I don't want no part of heaven
- I would not do heaven's work well
- I pray the devil comes and takes me
- To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell
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