youngstown-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