Youngstown

Here in north east ohio back in eighteen oh three James and danny heaton found the ore that was lining 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 sinking down here darling in youngstown Well my daddy worked the furnaces kept them hotter than hell I come home from 'nam worked my way to scarfer a job that'd suit the devil as well Taconite coke and limestone fed my children and made my pay Then smokestacks reaching like the arms of god into a beautiful sky of soot and clay Well my daddy come on the ohio works when he come home from world war two Now the yards just scrap and rubble he said "them big boys did what hitler couldn't do" 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 From the monongahela valley to the mesabi iron range To the coal mines of appalacchia 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 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