Bruce Springsteen - Youngstown Lyrics

Smoke stacks reaching like the arms of god ! What great lyric`s.

Who’s here from geography alevel

1995: Bruce writes an awesome anthem for the Rust Belt...


2016: Everyone realizes the Rust Belt exists.

Make Youngstown Great Again, open The Factories.

I'm 16 and this is my favorite song ...

Thyssenkrupp German steel driver.Love Youngstown history.

Great song

Youngstown...Sharon PA..Farrell PA...Pittsburgh....

a city that is now nothing but a small community trying to stay alive

Could be the history of my family. I'm born and raised in germany but my dad was born in 1955 in youngstown. My granpa was send to germany to fight against hitler back in the days

I really love this song. I seem to favor Springsteen at his most downstrippedd and depressive :)

Why are all songs about Youngstown sad? It's a happening place!

My dad and my stepdad worked at Republic Steel my Granddad worked at United. I missed the Steel Mill work but hauled blast furnace slag out of Standard Slag with J&S trucking. Wow does anyone remember J&S? It was a real trip when Bruce sang about Yongstown!

To my brothers and sisters of Youngstown OHIO I raise my hand to my cover in salute to your history signed a Marine from the coal mines of Ohio

never gets old --

A soul poet if there ever was one ...

The man speaks truth - as always

when I die I dont want no part of Heaven
I wont do Heaven's work's well ( here in Youngstown )
I pray the Devil comes + takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of Hell


Jesus H Christ
Paradise Lost in a nutshell

Jim Norton on "Jim and Sam show"brought me here.

My father was from Youngstown. My mother was from Athens,Greece. I was born in a squall.

That last line about the furnaces of hell is so powerful

Everyone wants everything made in the USA - but nobody wants to pay 5x the price. Nobody wants child labor and horrible working conditions but we sure enjoy paying $4 for a 6pack of undershirts. Kind of a catch 22. This song is so brilliant though

Cleveland went through the same thing

This song causes tears to come to my eyes.

Same here. Every goddam time. And I'm about as far away from the Rust Belt as you can get (both geographically and mentally)

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I remember brier hill pizza " was the best.

in those days " YOU followed your dad into the mill . GOD BLESS you daddy. Thank you for your hard work.

Beautiful

This Bruce's best song. In my opinion. Anyway he is still the BOSS.

Masterpiece!!!

heard this song first time round, still as powerful

Some of the greatest lyrics laid down

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USA 2019, yesterday - today?!

What gives Bruce? The working class at the heart of your entire body of work just voted for Trump. At the very least, you need to pay attention to that.

I poured iron I've poured aluminum I've worked the core room I love foundry work some of us were built for it

Ashland, Kentucky, was home to ARMCO Steel, was one of the first rolling mill steel plants in the country, opening in 1920. The place is 99 years old. The last two days the town has been reeling from the expected news that the home office was going to shut the mill down and move workers who choose to stay to other operations around the country. Meanwhile, $1.2 billion was invested in a mill in Dearborn, Michigan, while the Ashland works didn't get much of anything. Three years ago they shut down the main unit, and now the rest of the plant is closing. My grandfather retired from Armco in 1967. A lot of other families had ties to the mill. Now everyone is wondering if Braidy Industries will do good in getting an aluminum rolling mill plant in operation to make up for the loss of AK Steel.

Thanks to a documentary on Arte

Weak b. Springsteen trying to make a buck of misery.. no thanxs

The Boss of Soul. Poetry from the heart is more powerful than anything. Thanks Bruce. Music Life Heart

Buckeye Steel (Columbus Castings) is flat land now. Sad to see. Will be mixed use apartments a year from now. Guess we will get the cheap shit from India and China from now on.

THE BOS IS THE BOS

"Once I made you rich enough, rich enough to forget my name."

good stuff...Gumbo still comin'...

Bruce is quite the storyteller/songwriter 👏👏👍🤘thank you!! You are so soothing calming sensible and normal ❤️

Incredible song heartbreaking lyrics. Kinda depressing to read all the comments documenting the slow death of proud , hardworking communities. Same story can be applied to many parts of my country’s ( UK ) . We did everything they asked of us and more.

"CRUZE DRIVEN OUT" This is what the local paper headline read last week in the huge font reserved for declarations of war and other earth-shattering events. I thought it was a bit exaggerated at first.


I've never in a mill, but my dad did for while, his father too. I've only seen the skeletons of mills and the areas in Youngstown and Warren that once were prosperous because of them. Hinting what it was like before. Driving home one night this song came on the radio. Then I realized. The jobs gone, workers fighting to survive. A part of the remaining industry here was placed in the Lordstown factory. It is happening again, just like the mills, though on a smaller scale.


The headline was not exaggerated. Their world IS shattering, and they know it.

In capitalism, its a story of a few wealthy owners making money off the hands of the many strong steel workers who built this great nation, then slam-bam-thank you-maam, now l'm done with you. Its a true shame. My father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were steel workers down the river at Wheeling-Pittsburgh steel. When they sold out to the Russians-Severstal, it was the beginning of the end!@

70sfred1 there’s no alternative. Globalism isn’t capitalism. Wake up

As a kid that lives in Youngstown my dad used to tell stories about working in the mills when they closed the mills everything went down hill into the gutters

I grew up across the border from Y Town and had family work the mills there in Youngstown and Sharon, PA. Kind of nice hearing this song.

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One of Bruce's best songs. A tragic tale of disillusionment and the failures of capitalism.

Move to Venezuela

I love this song

I live here lol

a great song.

gooooooood song

Bruce Springsteen for president.

I recommend listening to the version of blue moon rising is better than the original

Bravo grande Bruce

My dad worked at WCI Steel till it closed. And worked at another one in Lewisville till he retired. Hard work and hours. If you never lived in Youngstown you will never understand.

Hippie Jessie I'm a refac bricklayer from Boone co WV I traveled the country raisen my younguns laying brick in those ovens this song is absolutely as sad and beautiful as the decline of our area

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

Very powerful words

Those who die and go to heaven all have issues to bare. It's basically a fresh start with memories of this life forgotten. God is love and it will be overwhelming. The other option is chaos, you will want to end your existence but without a flesh and bone body you will always fail.

Guys like trump , Apple, other big corps send jobs overseas for bigger profits for investors. Where do they think they'll live when shit hits the fan? I suppose in their gated communities with private security forces.

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R.ip. Youngstown Ohio

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Listening to this while on break at the mon valley works for US STEEL

Good song

I used to live near Youngstown for 11 years. Still have a lot of friends there. It isn't other countries who wrecked the place through unfair trade deals. It also isn't one particular president. Sure, none of them have made things better. Neither Trump, nor Obama, nor Bush, nor Clinton, nor Carter, nor Reagan...

Ask yourself, why did Americans only have a choice to vote for Hilary or Trump. Almost nobody liked either one of them, or thought they would make a good President, or care about workers. Personally I reckon Trump is worse, but not by much. There has to be something really broken in the system if two people who are that unpopular, and that unsuitable, are the only choice! In East Germany they had the choice of voting yes or no for one person. This is not much different!

The problem is that the Presidency is for sale! Has been for a long time. So the highest bidders get to choose who you can vote for. They pick both choices, and that's why Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, and other progressives who do care about workers were not among your choices!

The people who own the place are the Koch Brothers, the Mercer Family, the DeVos, the Walton family. They will do brilliantly with either Hilary or Trump. They wouldn't have done as well under Bernie. They care about every last penny they can squeeze out of the country, and no trade deal is made, that does not benefit them. They don't care about you at all!

fmueller1 This is all the absolute truth.

Espectacular

A song that applies to heavy industry around the world. The welsh valleys built on coal were destroyed in 85 when the government shut them. Went to see bruce in Australia this year and seen this song 3 times. Up there with my favourite.

I would like nothing better than to revive the unions. However, as I see it they need to make a slight change in their goals. What if the unions were to offer accessible and paid job retraining to men and women losing their jobs to new methods of manufacture and the need for cleaner production methods. It was Ronald Reagan who began the undermining of the working class. Brotherhood is wonderful but steelworkers may have to become brothers in another field. Certainly, our work is the best but is there a chance that unions could become international? Just random thoughts because I felt really touched by the song. And I feel that our present administration is just ripping us all off no matter who we are.

,, Youngstown,, SONG forever , sve je rečeno pjesmom i textom , super stvar ...

Here in north east Ohio
Back in eighteen-o-three
James and Danny Heaton
Found the ore that was linin' yellow creek
They built a blast furnace
Here along the shore
And they made the cannon balls
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
Then 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
Well my daddy come on the 0hio works
When he come home from world war two
Now the yards 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 Monongaleh valley
To the Mesabi iron range
To the coal mines of Appalacchia
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
In Youngstown
In 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 heavens work well
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell
מילים: Bruce Springsteen

BRUCE sings on heartstrings of the blue collar Worker & is part of Wealthy Globalist Butt heads! I asked him to stand w/ Bernie Sanders instead he sucked up to THE Rape enabler, Child Trafficker, Screw The Haitians, MOST CORRUPT witch in the World Hillary Clinton! Bet Bruce is a Pedophile, a child rapist as he does frequent Strip joint & is A Sex FREAK! YEP! PLUS HE backed Obama & his WifeMan Moochelle Obama!

This asswipe ripped off Bob Seger. My respect for Bruce Springsteen went from zero into the negative.

SPRINGSTEEN CARES OR HE WOULDN'T BOTHER BROTHER & SISTERS. WHO THE F%(# IS EVEN CONSIDERING WRITING THESE STORIES.....? NOOO ONE! MISS YOU WOODY ! MISS YOU JOE STRUMMER! WAKE UP AND SUPPORT THIS KNOWING ! BE MAD AND SEND IT TO THE ONES WHO REPRESENT AND OWN THIS SELL OUT. THANK YOU BRUCE FOR YOUR ENDLESS COURAGE! THIS SOCIETY IS RIPPED AND CAN'T FEED ITSELF ANY LONGER. I DO SOMETHING , WHAT I CAN . YOU SHOULD TOO. IT'S CALLED SIMPLY RESIST AND NO ASSIST.THANK YOU BRUCE ( I HEAR HE SUFFERS FROM DEPRESSION! CHRONIC DEPRESSION) HIS FAME AND RICHES ARE OURS'S TOO. I THANK YOU BRUCE ,AGAIN. GOOD MAN AT THE END OF IT ALL.....THANKS.

I live in Youngstown you can't do anything no more sense it went to shit the cops are on your ass 24/7

Sounds like that Bob Seeger song Turn the Page

Yeah dude,,, it has the same tonality

Miss G Pa real bad now. This song always gets me cause he worked Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. He also made 23 1/2 raids over occupied Europe in a B -17. Then spent 2 years in German prison camp. So, this song gets at me a little. I was wish it was written and sung by someone else cause BS is part of the Hollywood elite and he and anyone with him doesn't have a working bone in his body!!! Thanks Grandpa for putting through College, miss u, ur the best!!!!

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William Downie William, I agree. Speechless!

Un tema de los que no deja indiferente. Hace con sus acordes que retrocedamos a aquellos años. Gracias Bruce por hacer sentir tantas cosas con tus canciones!

"Once I made you rich enough, rich enough to forget my name." Is such a sting a strong quote. It's one of my favourites I love it

RICH ENOUGH TO FORGET MY PAIN?

No it’s forget my name as the rich use the poor

This is a great song but let's face it: Springsteen by supporting Hillary over Trump is an unforgivable betrayal of the working class. Trump talked about bringing jobs back, not Hillary. Bruce is a poser and while it's a very convincing pose, that's all it is. He doesn't have an actual working class bone in his body. The Hollywood establishment is his people.

M.S. Trump shits on a gold toilets and wipes his ass with the dried out skin of working class corpses.

M.S. don’t bring politics in a great song!

Trump's betrayal of the working class through his rich man's tax cut will be one of his saddest legacies. Oh, and selling out the US to Putin. That, too. If you think Trump ever had the working man's back, you're delusional.

Trump is a rich, spoiled, entitled brat who never worked a day in his life. Corporate greed killed Youngstown

The genius of Mr Bruce Frederick Springsteen

I grew up in Parma but live in NJ now. Our dads worked at US Steel. I got out. Good old Bruce lives not too far from here in a town called Rumson, NJ. You can google it. Real man of the people, that Bruce. Champion of the working man.

Yall should check out blue moons rising's cover it's very good

This song just came out from the American soil, a miracle of inspiration

"Youngstown"

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

Jesus H Christ

Bruce and Mike Rowe look so much alike...its uncanny....Mike Rowe also sings...

Both political parties have sold the American worker down the river. Both parties have seen the communities decimated by unfair trade deals and thanked the corporations that closed shop for their donations while turning a blind eye to the workers...

The workers should band together to kick the bourgois-asses of the parties that betrayed us.

Mack Lack eventually we will have to fight the globalists. Look at where we are now. It’s inevitable

there is some irony here that Bruce's message of anger & betraya is the same one thatl has manifested itself in making
Ohio vote for a man born with the silver spoon & a self serving divisive nature who has zero notion
of the common working man. I guess it was just the anger that swung it?

graham mccready Bruce Springsteen has mastered the art of 'empathy' and was from a blue collar background, but he's just always bought into liberal thought... he's worked hard at his own thing, but he's, I guess earned his way. It's just his way, and it's not real. To the rest of us working Americans who aren't wealthy. We do it our own way. He's just a spectator, but I can still admit, some of his songs are just good. It just is what it is.

@Ben Pepka You are right. Bruce started out with nothing and has earned everything he has. We develop our fundamental values growing up, certainly by our mid-20s. Bruce has never forgotten where he came from.

Du moins dans une partie de votre population chez vous là bas .

On est en plein dedans .

THEY TOOK OUR JUUUUBS!

Make America Great Again

voting for Trump........i got to give a man a chance to do something different than whats going on now!