Bruce Springsteen – Youngstown (Guitar)
Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E)
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar Acoustic
Guitar
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
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 used]
Dm C Cadd9 F
E|-----1------|-----0------|-----0------|-----1------|
B|-----3------|-----1------|-----3------|-----1------|
G|-----2------|-----0------|-----0------|-----2------|
D|-----0------|-----2------|-----2------|-----3------|
A|-----0------|-----3------|-----3------|------------|
D|-----0------|------------|------------|------------|[Verse]
Dm Here in northeast Ohio, back in 1803 Cadd9 Dm James and Dan Heaton found the ore that was lining Yellow Creek. Dm They built a blast furnace here along the shore, Cadd9 Dm And they made the cannonballs that helped the Union win the war.
[Chorus]
Cadd9 Here in Youngstown Dm Here in Youngstown F C My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down Dm Here darlin' in Youngstown
[Verse]
Dm Well my daddy worked the furnaces, kept 'em hotter than hell Cadd9 I come home from 'Nam, worked my way to scarfer, Cadd9 Dm A job that'd suit the devil as well. Dm Taconite coke and limestone fed my children and made my pay Cadd9 Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God Dm Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay
[Chorus]
Cadd9 Here in Youngstown Dm Here in Youngstown F C My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down Dm Here darlin' in Youngstown
[Verse]
F C Well, my daddy come on the Ohio works Dm When he come home from World War Two. Cadd9 Now the yard's just scrap and rubble Dm He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do." F C These mills they built the tanks and bombs Dm That won this country's wars. Cadd9 We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam. Dm Now we're wondering what they were dying for.
[Chorus]
Cadd9 Here in Youngstown Dm Here in Youngstown F C My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down Dm Here darlin' in Youngstown
[Verse]
Dm From the Monongahela Valley to the Mesabi iron range Cadd9 Dm To the coal mines of Appalachia, the story's always the same. Dm Seven hundred tons of metal a day, now sir, you tell me the world's changed. Cadd9 Dm Once I made you rich enough, rich enough to forget my name.
[Chorus]
Cadd9 Here in Youngstown Dm Here in Youngstown F C My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down Dm Here darlin' in Youngstown
[Outro]
F C When I die I don't want no part of heaven Dm I would not do heaven's work well Cadd9 I pray the devil comes and takes me to stand Dm In the fiery furnaces of hell.