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Youngstown by Bruce Springsteen

Release Date
Tue Nov 21 1995
Performed by
Bruce Springsteen
Produced by
Chuck Plotkin & Bruce Springsteen
About

Youngstown, Ohio is a city in the northeast of the state. Youngstown is in a region of the United States that is referred to as the “Rust Belt.” Traditionally known as a center of steel production, Youngstown was forced to redefine itself when the U.S. steel industry fell into decline in the 1970s,...

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Youngstown Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Here in northeast Ohio
Back in 1803
James and Dan Heaton found the ore
That was lining Yellow Creek

[Verse 2]
They built a blast furnace
Here along the shore
And they made the cannonballs
That helped the Union win the war

[Chorus]
Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinking down
Here, darling, in Youngstown

[Verse 3]
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

[Verse 4]
That taconite coke and limestone
Fed my children and made my pay
Them smokestacks reaching like the arms of God
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

[Chorus]
Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
Sweet Jenny, I'm sinking down
Here, darling, in Youngstown

[Bridge]
Well, my daddy come on the Ohio works
When he come home from World War II
Now the yard's just scrap and rubble
He said, "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do"
Yeah, 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 dying for

[Chorus]
Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinking down
Here, darling, in Youngstown

[Verse 5]
From the Monongahela Valley
To the Mesabi iron range
To the coal mines of Appalachia
The story's always the same

[Verse 6]
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

[Chorus]
In Youngstown
In Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinking down
Here, darling, in Youngstown

[Verse 7]
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

Youngstown Q&A

Who wrote Youngstown's ?

Youngstown was written by Bruce Springsteen.

Who produced Youngstown's ?

Youngstown was produced by Chuck Plotkin & Bruce Springsteen.

When did Bruce Springsteen release Youngstown?

Bruce Springsteen released Youngstown on Tue Nov 21 1995.

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