Key:
Introduction:
Am***
E -0-0-0-0-
B -1-1-1-1-
Am A2 Am A4
Here in northeast Ohio, back in 1803
G* Am**
James and Dan Heaton found the ore that was lining Yellow Creek.
Am*
They built a blast furnace here along the shore,
G Am**
And they made the cannonballs that helped the Union win the war.
G*
Here in Youngstown
Am
Here in Youngstown
C G*
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Am*
Here darlin' in Youngstown
Am*
Well my daddy worked the furnaces, kept 'em hotter than hell
G*
I come home from 'Nam, worked my way to scarfer,
G* Am
A job that'd suit the devil as well.
Am*
Taconite coke and limestone fed my children and made my pay
G*
Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God
Am A2
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay
G
Here in Youngstown
Am
Here in Youngstown
C G*
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Am*
Here darlin' in Youngstown
C G*
Well, my daddy come on the Ohio works
Am
When he come home from World War Two.
G*
Now the yard's just scrap and rubble
G Am A4
He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do."
C G*
These mills they built the tanks and bombs
Am
That won this country's wars.
G*
We gave our sons to Korea and Vietnam.
Am**
Now we're wondering what they were dying for.
G*
Here in Youngstown
Am**
Here in Youngstown
C G*
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Am*** - Hammer on the G string instead
Am*
From the Monongahela Valley to the Mesabi iron range
G Am
To the coal mines of Appalachia, the story's always the same.
Am*
Seven hundred tons of metal a day, now sir, you tell me the world's changed.
G Am**
Once I made you rich enough, rich enough to forget my name.
G*
Here in Youngstown
Am**
Here in Youngstown
C G*
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Am**
Here darlin' in Youngstown
C G*
When I die I don't want no part of heaven
Am
I would not do heaven's work well
G*
I pray the devil comes and takes me to stand
Am* G
In the fiery furnaces of hell.