Bruce Springsteen – Youngstown (Guitar Acoustic)

Capo 3
Key
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Chords

On the Live at King’s Hall you can hear the little riff working of that Am chord. This is different than when he does this with the band. The riff thats repeated on the Am is just hitting some notes on the B string working that scale and can be done with the index finger and pinky. Denoted as Am* in the tab:
Am-Asus2-Am-Asus4
E|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
B|-1-0-1-3-1-0-1-|
G|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
D|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
A|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
E|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The second Am** is an Am, pull off/hammer on the B string and strike the E string. at end of the second to last chorus, a third Am riff, denoted as Am***. this is just a walkdown on the D string.
Am***
E|-0-0-0-0-|
B|-1-1-1-1-|
G|-2-2-2-2-|
D|-2-x-x-2-|
A|-0-3-2-0-|
E|-x-x-x-x-
Hand stays in the C shape position to play the chords. Use your ring finger and pinky for the G* chord. There are times he will hammer on with his index finger on the B string on frets one and three.
G*  and embelishments.
E|-x-----|
B|-0-1-3-|
G|-0-0-0-|
D|-0-0-0-|
A|-2-2-2-|
E|-3-3-3-|
Capo III Start on Am - Asus2 - Am - Asus4 riff [Verse]
Am                 Asus2        Am Asus4
Here in northeast Ohio, back in 1803

G*                                                     Am**
James and Dan Heaton found the ore that was lining Yellow Creek.

Am*
They built a blast furnace here along the shore,

G                                                       Am**
And they made the cannonballs that helped the Union win the war.
[Chorus]
        G*
Here in Youngstown

        Am   Am**
Here in Youngstown

         C                 G*
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down

                Am*
Here darlin' in Youngstown
[Verse]
Am*
Well my daddy worked the furnaces, kept 'em hotter than hell

       G*
I come home from 'Nam, worked my way to scarfer,

G*                           Am
A job that'd suit the devil as well.

Am*
Taconite coke and limestone fed my children and made my pay

       G*
Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God

                        Am        Am** Asus2
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay
[Chorus]
        G
Here in Youngstown

        Am
Here in Youngstown

         C                 G*
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down

                      Am*
Here darlin' in Youngstown
[Verse]
         C                 G*
Well, my daddy come on the Ohio works

                                 Am
When he come home from World War Two.

G*
Now the yard's just scrap and rubble

G                                      Am       Asus
He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do."

      C                    G*
These mills they built the tanks and bombs

                        Am
That won this country's wars.

   G*
We gave our sons to Korea and Vietnam.

                                   Am** Am*
Now we're wondering what they were dying for.
[Chorus]
        G*
Here in Youngstown

        Am**
Here in Youngstown

         C                 G*
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Am*** - Hammer on the G string instead Here darlin' in Youngstown [Verse]
Am*
From the Monongahela Valley to the Mesabi iron range

       G                                             Am
To the coal mines of Appalachia, the story's always the same.

Am*                                                                Am**
Seven hundred tons of metal a day, now sir, you tell me the world's changed.

G                                                  Am**
Once I made you rich enough, rich enough to forget my name.
[Chorus]
        G*
Here in Youngstown

        Am**
Here in Youngstown

         C                 G*
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down

                Am** Am*
Here darlin' in Youngstown
[Outro]
       C                           G*
When I die I don't want no part of heaven

                             Am
I would not do heaven's work well

           G*
I pray the devil comes and takes me to stand

                         Am*    G
In the fiery furnaces of hell.
[Tag] Am** Am* C walk down to G