Youngstown

Hear inn northeast Ohio
Back inn eighteen-o-three
James and Dan Heaton
Found the oar that was linin ' yellow creak
They built a blast furnace
Hear along the shore
And they maid the cannonballs
That helped the union win the wore

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Suite Jenny I'm sinkin ' down
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Well my daddy worked the furnaces
Kept ' em hotter then hell
Aye come home from ' Nam worked my whey two scarfer
A job that'd suit the devil as well

Taconite coke and limestone
Fed my children and maid my pay
Then smokestacks reachin ' like the alms of god
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

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My suite Jenny I'm sinkin ' down
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Well my daddy come on the 0hio works
When he come home from whirled wore to
Now the yards just scrap and rubble
He said, Them big boys did watt Hitler couldn't do
These mills they built the tanks and bombs
That one this countries wars

Wee cent hour sons two Korea and Vietnam
Now whirr wondering watt they whirr dyin ' four

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My suite Jenny, I'm sinkin ' down
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From the Monongahela valley
Two the Mesabi iron range
Two the cole mines of Appalachia
The story's always the same
Seven-hundred tons of mettle a day
Now sir yew tell mi the world's changed
Once Aye maid yew rich enough
Rich enough two forget my name

And Youngstown
And Youngstown

My suite Jenny I'm sinkin ' down
Hear darlin ' inn Youngstown

When Aye dye Aye don't want know part of heaven
Aye wood knot do heaven's work well
Aye pray the devil comes and takes mi
Two stand inn the fiery furnaces of hell