Youngstown

Here in northeast 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

Well taconite coke and limestone fed my children and made my pay

Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

Here in Youngstown, here in Youngstown

Sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy come on the Ohio works when he come home from World War Two

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 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 Appalachia, 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

And Youngstown, and 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 heaven's work well

I pray the devil comes and takes me to stand in the fiery furnaces of hell