Youngstown is also a brilliant piece of work, in my humble opinion. I have about 5 versions of the song, thanks to the mighty Internet... My kids also love the sopng, probably because I've more or less forced it down their throats... So how be I force it down yours:

Here in northeast Ohio
Back in 1803
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 made my pay
Them smokestacks reachin' like the arm 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 dying for
 
Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown
 
From the Monogahela 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


: I'm a huge Springsteen fan, so I may be biased, but I really like TJ, granted it is slower and most songs on the album tend to sound more like spoken word than songs, but I think that's what he was going for. The stories in each song were what hooked me. Dry Lightning and Straight Time are my favorite songs off that album. Especially Straight Time.

: : There is a Springsteen vibe in the air, yes there is. �And I will chime in with a bit of glee, as I like the guy's stuff, generally.

: : But that "Ghost" album . . . am I the only one who found it to be wholly repetitive, both musically and thematically? �I mean, Springsteen has never been one to wander far from the A Adim Aaug A structure, but this record sounds to me like it was written and recorded under towels.

: : I think that this is my off-kilter way of appreciating DB's albums. �I can listen to them all the way through without feeling like I heard the same song over and over. �Of course, there is "new Bruce" that I have not heard. �Surely someone will set me straight.

: : Herring405

: : PS: �I do like these lines from Bruce:

: : "Life is a box of chocolates

: : you never know what you're gonna get

: : Stupid is as stupid does

: : and all the rest of that shit."