Here in northeast Ohio

Back in eighteen-o-three

James and Dan Heaton

Found the ore that was linin’ Yellow Creek

They built a blast furnace

Here along the shore

And they made the cannonballs

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

Taconite coke and limestone

Fed my children and make 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."

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