Youngstown

[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