Youngstown-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:Youngstown] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:The Ghost Of Tom Joad] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Youngstown - Bruce Springsteen [00:03.83]Here in northeast Ohio [00:05.76] [00:06.69]Back in eighteen-o-three [00:08.62] [00:10.35]James and Dan Heaton [00:12.54]Found the ore that was linin' Yellow Creek [00:15.40] [00:17.13]They built a blast furnace [00:18.70] [00:20.30]Here along the shore [00:22.05] [00:23.92]And they made the cannonballs [00:25.72] [00:27.09]That helped the Union win the war [00:28.89] [00:30.13]Here in Youngstown [00:33.37]Here in Youngstown [00:34.44] [00:36.55]My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down [00:38.66] [00:40.50]Here darlin' in Youngstown [00:42.11] [00:48.80]Well my daddy worked the furnaces [00:50.99] [00:52.27]Kept 'em hotter than hell [00:54.29] [00:55.27]I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer [00:57.89] [00:58.87]A job that'd suit the devil as well [01:00.83] [01:02.11]Taconite coke and limestone [01:03.53] [01:05.04]Fed my children and make my pay [01:07.35] [01:08.53]Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God [01:12.25]Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay [01:14.91] [01:17.01]Here in Youngstown [01:17.83] [01:20.39]Here in Youngstown [01:21.20] [01:23.95]Sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down [01:27.51]Here darlin' in Youngstown [01:29.14] [01:35.58]Well my daddy come on the Ohio works [01:38.76]When he come home from World War Two [01:41.39] [01:42.45]Now the yard's just scrap and rubble [01:45.22]He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do " [01:48.16] [01:50.63]These mills they built the tanks and bombs [01:53.67] [01:54.25]That won this country's wars [01:55.81] [01:57.42]We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam [02:00.81]Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for [02:03.58] [02:05.68]Here in Youngstown [02:06.62] [02:09.00]Here in Youngstown [02:09.80] [02:12.17]My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down [02:14.28] [02:16.19]Here darlin' in Youngstown [02:17.56] [02:24.33]From the Monongahela valley [02:26.36] [02:27.48]To the Mesabi iron range [02:29.52] [02:30.99]To the coal mines of Appalachia [02:33.18] [02:34.37]The story's always the same [02:36.11] [02:38.18]Seven hundred tons of metal a day [02:40.99]Now sir you tell me the world's changed [02:43.12] [02:44.86]Once I made you rich enough [02:47.05] [02:47.80]Rich enough to forget my name [02:49.68] [02:51.24]And Youngstown [02:54.61]And Youngstown [02:55.30] [02:57.54]My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down [02:59.70] [03:01.59]Here darlin' in Youngstown [03:03.17] [03:09.29]When I die I don't want no part of heaven [03:12.23] [03:12.86]I would not do heaven's work well [03:14.78] [03:16.13]I pray the devil comes and takes me [03:19.06]To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell