YOUNGSTOWN
Bruce Springsteen
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Here in northeast Ohio, back in 1803
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James and Dan Heaton found the ore that was lining Yellow Creek.
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They built a blast furnace here along the shore,
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And they made the cannonballs that helped the Union win the war.
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Here in Youngstown
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Here in Youngstown
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My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
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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 made my pay
Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay
Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown
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Well, my daddy come on the Ohio works
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When he come home from World War Two.
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Now the yard's just scrap and rubble
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He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do."
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These mills they built the tanks and bombs
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That won this country's wars.
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We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam.
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Now we're wondering what they were dying 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
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When I die I don't want no part of heaven
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I would not do heaven's work well
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I pray the devil comes and takes me to stand
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In the fiery furnaces of hell.