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Lyrics for Youngstown by Bruce Springsteen:
| | | Artist: | Bruce Springsteen |
| | Album: | The Ghost Of Tom Joad | | Track: | Youngstown | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 185 | | | | Lyrics: | 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
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