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Bruce Springsteen |
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Ghost Of Tom Joad |
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Youngstown |
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Here in northeast ohio |
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Back in eighteen-o-threejames and dan heaton |
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Found the ore that was linin' yellow creek |
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They built a blast furnacehere along the shor |
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And they made the cannonballs |
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That helped the union win the war |
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Here in youngstown |
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Here in youngstown |
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My sweet jenny i'm sinkin' down |
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Here darlin' in youngstown |
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Well my daddy worked the furnaces |
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Kept 'em hotter than hell |
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I come home from 'nam worked my way to scarfer |
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A job that'd suit the devil as well |
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Taconite coke and limestone |
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Fed my children and made my pay |
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Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of god |
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Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay |
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Here in youngstown |
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Here in youngstown |
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My sweet jenny i'm sinkin' down |
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Here darlin' in youngstown |
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Well my daddy come on the ohio works |
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When he come home from world war two |
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Now the yard's just scrap and rubble |
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He said "them big boys did what hitler couldn't do. |
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"these mills they built the tanks and bombs |
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That won this country's wars |
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We sent our sons to korea and vietnam |
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Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for |
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Here in youngstown |
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Here in youngstown |
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My sweet jenny i'm sinkin' down |
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Here darlin'in youngstown |
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Here in youngstown |
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From the monongahela valley |
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To the mesabi iron range |
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To the coal mines of appalachia |
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The story's always the same |
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700 tons of metal a day |
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Now sir you tell me the world's changed |
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Once i made you rich enough |
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Rich enough to forget my name |
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And youngstown |
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And youngstown |
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My sweet jenny i'm sinkin' down |
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Here darlin' in youngstown |
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When i die i don't want no part of heaven |
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I would not do heaven's work well |
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I pray the devil comes and takes me |
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To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell |
