Youngstown chords by Bruce Springsteen

Chords with lyrics

Difficulty: Novice


YOUNGSTOWN
 By Bruce Springsteen
 From The Ghost of Tom Joad Album

NOTES
 This song is pretty simple. The picking pattern at the beginning
 is a simple bass-chord strum that you should be able to hear easily.

CHORDS
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LYRICS
DmDm
Here in northeast Ohio, back in 1803
Cadd9Cadd9                           DmDm
James and Dan Heaton found the ore that was lining Yellow Creek.
DmDm
They built a blast furnace here along the shore,
Cadd9Cadd9                            DmDm
And they made the cannonballs that helped the Union win the war.

    Cadd9Cadd9
Here in Youngstown
    DmDm
Here in Youngstown
     FF         C majorC
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
        DmDm
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 augmentedA job that'd suit the devil as well.
Taconite coke and limestone fed my children and made my pay
Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

     FF         C majorC
Well, my daddy come on the Ohio works
                 DmDm
When he come home from World War Two.
    Cadd9Cadd9
Now the yard's just scrap and rubble
                    DmDm
He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do."
   FF          C majorC
These mills they built the tanks and bombs
            DmDm
That won this country's wars.
  Cadd9Cadd9
We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam.
                  DmDm
Now we're wondering what they were dying 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

    FF              C majorC
When I die I don't want no part of heaven
               DmDm
I would not do heaven's work well
      Cadd9Cadd9
I pray the devil comes and takes me to stand
         DmDm
In the fiery furnaces of hell.

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