Youngstown by Bruce Springsteen

[lenidog]

Here in north east Ohio
Back in eighteen-o-three
James and Danny Heaton
Found the ore that was linin' yellow creek
They built a blast furnace
Here along the shore
And they made the cannon balls
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 made my pay
Then 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

Well my daddy come on the 0hio works
When he come home from world war two
Now the yards 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 Appalacchia
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

In Youngstown
In 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 heavens work well
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell

[gutta]

1. Y-Town!

I've been lurking here for about a year now and decided to reply because I'm from Y-Town. Good song!

[jarab]

2. Welcome, gutta ! Glad you posted. eom

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[lenidog]

3. Welcome!

I honored that your first post is here. I was just listening to it and decided to post the lyrics. Its one of my favorite songs.

[newyawker99]

4. Hi gutta!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Palacsinta]

6. Grew up near there...

Right across the border in Pennsyltucky.....Youngstown was the place to go for 3.2 beer when you turned 18.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

8. Where in PA?

I was near New Castle. A truly horrible place, with the exception of some interesting geography.

[deutsey]

5. I was just in Youngstown attending a working class studies conference

at YSU (http://www.as.ysu.edu/~cwcs/). I presented a paper on Mark Twain's conflicted class views in Connecticut Yankee.

The conference was great, we loved the campus and residents of the town that we met, but my friend and I who went were bummed by the way the town seemed to be struggling economically.

[thebigidea]

7. my favorite Youngstown song from D-E-V-O from O-H-I-O:

Auto modown
Down in Youngstown
Bodies in the street

Auto mowdown
Noon in downtown
Bodies with no feet

Auto mowdown
Down in Youngstown
Bodies got de’blues

Auto mowdown
Noon in downtown
Bodies with no shoes

An acidhead goon in a 55 dodge
Didn’t mean to do it
But a sidewalk run in the noonday sun
Ten to one he had to lose it