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Youngstown - Bruce Springsteen 
 
Dm 
Here in north east Ohio 
 
Back in eighteen-o-three 
      Cadd9 
James and Danny Heaton 
                                     Dm 
Found the ore that was linin' yellow creek 
 
They built a blast furnace 
 
Here along the shore 
Cadd9 
And they made the cannon balls 
                              Dm 
That helped the union win the war 
 
              Cadd9 
Here in Youngstown 
               Dm
Here in Youngstown 
           F                 Cadd9 
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down 
                      Dm 
Here darlin' in Youngstown 
 

Well my daddy worked the furnaces 

Kept 'em hotter then hell 
       Cadd9
I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer 
                               Dm
A job that'd suit the devil as well 

Yeah, taconite, coke and limestone 

Fed my children and made my pay 
          Cadd9
Then smokestacks reachin' like the arms of god 
                         Dm
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay 


              Cadd9 
Here in Youngstown 
               Dm
Here in Youngstown 
           F                 Cadd9 
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down 
                      Dm 
Here darlin' in Youngstown 

         F                  Cadd9 
Well my daddy come on the 0hio works 
                                    Dm
When he come home from world war two 
                               Cadd9
Now the yards just scrap and rubble 
                                          Dm
He said, "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do" 
       F                    Cadd9
These mills they built the tanks and bombs 
                           Dm
That won this countries wars 
         Cadd9
We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam 
                                   Dm
Now were wondering what they were dyin' for 
 
              Cadd9 
Here in Youngstown 
               Dm
Here in Youngstown 
           F                 Cadd9 
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down 
                      Dm 
Here darlin' in Youngstown 

 
From the Monongahela Valley 

To the Mesabi iron range 
       Cadd9
To the coal mines of Appalacchia 
                        Dm
The story's always the same 

Seven-hundred tons of metal a day 

Now sir you tell me the world's changed 
        Cadd9
Once I made you rich enough 
                          Dm
Rich enough to forget my name 
 

              Cadd9 
Here in Youngstown 
               Dm
Here in Youngstown 
           F                 Cadd9 
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down 
                      Dm 
Here darlin' in Youngstown 

           F                         Cadd9
When I die I don't want no part of heaven 
                               Dm
I would not do heavens work well 
            Cadd9
I pray the devil comes and takes me 
                           Dm
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell 

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