Incredibly moving version, wow. The last verse, sung in an ominous, sneering tone, sounding like the devil: "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 o' hell" He was in character, for sure. First time seeing this, surely the first of many, many viewings.
What a great song. I worked as a brakeman on the railroad in eastern Ohio when I came home from 'Nam in the early seventies. The decline was evident. All those plants and mills that had been so vital and alive when I was a kid, reduced to scrap and rusting hulks. The jobs gone.
I hear ya Andrew29400,I live & Started working at Chrysler at 18 in 1978,52 & 1/2 now!!! Thats scary in itself.PEACE PEOPLE !!!!! Life too short for the B.S.
Youngstown is an incredible song....I much prefer it done like this than the rocked up version he done on later tours. It's power is in it's intimacy.
To the 11 people who didn't like this song please go to hell. We have been here in the valley for 8 generations. My family built this country and we have been abandoned by just about everyone. Love to you Bruce for giving us all a voice.
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...
Raised in Youngstown 1977-2003 then moved far away. You can still see all the traces of how it use to be. I remember when there was still somewhat of an economy. Miss you Y-Town
im not from younstown or ohio. im from california but when i heard this song it gets to me. It suck that companys choice money insted of pride, glory. Thats y for the past 5 years i try and buy prouducts made here in my country USA.
@azt1c559 I try to buy British products from the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution - but there isn't much leftt here either. It's all Chinese now...
i used to absolutely hate bruce springsteen for no particular reason at all....i used to think "jee...someones up himself." then i heard this song.....now there is a special place in my soul for this song.
I'm from the Croatian, Europe. I watched a documentary recently about Youngstown and the steel industry and how the economy in the U.S. collapses and especially the steel industry. From what I understand all is to blame China and their cheap labor. I'm sorry for the people who worked in the Youngstown steel industry and those who do not have a job because of the crisis that has hit the whole world. I hope that the state of the industry improve everywhere.
I grew up in Youngstown. I remember after the mills closed, the skeletons of the abandoned buildings. At least one of my grandfathers and my dad worked in the Steel Mills. Grandma used to tell us that when they heard the blast of the horns, she would have to run out and get the laundry in quick before they blew the stacks.
I am proud to be born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. The economy wasn’t very good but the people were and still are. I have a lot of friends that I have known for my whole life and after moving back from the West coast I realize that is a rare treasure to have in life. I also went to school with kids who came from many different socio economic statuses. We all got along and respect each other to this day.
i can understand you crying and remembering your dad, i also, cry at 'factory' when i think of my poor dad goin to work back in the seventies and losing his hearing working the hammers...bruce...your lyrics reach into everyones heart and soul...pure genius x
Once back in the early 80s I took a camera down to Federal Plaza to try to capture the bleak emptiness of it. Snow, rain, boarded up storefronts...I was in my artistic haze when one lone guy, hands in pockets, crossed the street near me. "How's it goin?" I asked. Without stopping or even looking up, he said "It's a lousy day and fucking world." That's Y-town to the core.
My dad was native to Youngstown, though he passed in September 2010. I only just heard about this song today from someone on Omegle. Reminds me of him...
Unbelievable comments by users from YT. Between GM, Parker-Hann., the new V&M facility (and the construction project itself); and among others like Gasser, we have an amazingly diverse manufacturing base. There is a good nightlife, services are strong--you can find any corporate agglomeration, eg, Ruby Tuesday, Applebees, etc. AND we are also starting to compete with Pittsburgh in the financial sector. YSU is great, Mill Creek is beautiful. Respect the past, but keep looking forward.
Youngstsown is the the perfect example of the American dream failing. Steel made the town and destroyed it. I saw Bruce play this at an Obama rally at Ohio State. Gives me the chills every time I hear it. My mom is from there and my uncle still lives in Hubbard. The place is as depressing as the song. sad.
I'm from Cleveland and it's pretty much the same story there. My uncle and cousins worked for J&L Steel until they laid everyone off. My grandfather was coal miner just outside of Pittsburgh.. God Bless them all and Bruce Springsteen.!
I went to Youngstown State University. Grew up in that area. I remember how much I looked forward to the downtown shopping at Christmas time at McKelvys and Isely's Ice Cream. Spent a lot of time ice skating and sledding in Mill Creek Park. Sometimes I really miss that area and time, even though it is so depressed.
@jake110118 everything dude. My dad teaches there, and it's pretty rough. I mean, I live on one of the cities outlying it, which is nice, but youngstown itself is hell. Btw, the east and north side are the worst.
@nebraska9000 Speaking as a citizen of Youngstown, I've gotta say, Pitt's comparatively well off. They recovered from the steel crash and found new economic security in new forms of industry - Youngstown never did. Also, it facilitates the rhyme in the refrain. :P
@nebraska9000 Youngstown is dead and buried. Pittsburgh is not. They may not make steel any more in Pittsburgh, but life goes on. Not so in Youngstown.
Well, Youngstown, we here on the west coast are watching closely to see what great things you do with redevelopment and the business incubator. I live in Carson City NV now and we are beginning to redevelop our downtown and start a business incubator as well. We could both learn a lot from each other. I miss my scrappy Y-town relatives and friends and God Bless all of you who stayed and look forward to the future of the Mahoning Valley. I hope to see you again before my time here is done.
@MegaAldoN I have many hungarian relatives buried in the graveyards of Youngstown. For some dumb reason I never put 2 and 2 together when they told me as a little girl that my dads uncle frank died in an accident at the mill. I was thinking saw mill. we lived in the country near canfield, so I was not as exposed to the reality of the mills until i grew up. we moved west in 1978 - both my parents were born at southside hospital in Youngstown. I hope the mahoning valley can and will recover.
I cry everytime I hear this song because it reminds me of my Dad. He worked for 42 years in those "fiery furnaces of hell" at Republic Steel in Youngstown. I wish he had lived long enough to hear this song, but he passed in 1984. Republic Steel sucked the life out of him! Here's to you, Dad!
@Markkassel Youngstown is just like a rundown town with all the blacks that live here. The houses they live in all look like shit cause they don't take care of it at all. The crime rate is terrible. I think is the worst town for murder rates in Ohio. Just about every street needs repaved and the city cant afford it. I think Y-town just needs to be demolished and rebuit from the ground up.
I wonder if $20 mil a year is enough to make Don Blankenship FORGET 29 NAMES. Why haven't the people of that town dragged him down the street and stuffed him face first into that vent shaft.
Prolly one of the best songs he ever did/wrote. You could put this beside "the river" and it would stand on it's own. IMO. This video is proof that a guitar and a message is all you need! And to whoever wrote the comment that the last verse is chilling: certainly is. I got goosebumps when i heard it. I love this album as well as "Nebraska" and "Devils & Dust"". But this album was truly relaxing on a different level that "Nebraska" wasnt. Nebraska is STILL a good album almost 30 yrs later!
Since you are pretty ignorant, I'll explain: America means nothing. You meant The United States (America could be North, South, Central, but you get my drift).
The USA is a secular nation, predominantly populated by people who are Christian.
He's President because he got an overwhelming majority of the electoral college votes.
If he were Muslim, he would still be President if he got 50% plus 1 of the electoral college votes.
I wish I knew the steel Mahoning valley like my dad did. I was born in 1980 when they were closing up. Just like Akron and the rubber mills.
Those two cites were hit hard when everything was pimped out to China. Its because cities like Youngstown, Detroit , Birmingham , Akron , Pittsburgh , and Cleveland that made winning WW2 possible. . Japanese spies where overwhelmed at our production and resourceful labor.
Why didn't the Boss ever return? He wrote a song, came here and gave the poor down-trodden people a little show and never came back.
Song is good. it truly captures the despair you would feel driving through Youngstown, esp the dead industrial areas. it stands as a testament to America's past as well as it;'s future.
I live in Youngstown and go to Youngstown State University. Even though everything is closing shop and people are moving out, it is still a hardworking city. Yes there are people bringing it down, but I call it home.
I have not been to Youngstown in 20 years but I have friends who grew up there and their father still lives there. I remember Federal Street when it was as busy as 42nd Street is in New York, my hometown. Its a damn shame what's happened in Youngstown and elsewhere. The robber barons of the 1800's built a nation, the robber barons of today have mortgaged it to the Chinese.
@Bluesky821 Robber Barons of the gilded age did just the same shit they are doing today. It's not they that built this nation - it was normal, hard-working, middle class citizens and immigrants that build this nation. You know, like the people Bruce it talking about in this tune.
@Bluesky821 Chief robber baron in this country's history: George Meany, followed by Lane Kirkland. Together, they were responsible for destroying the largest steel producing region in the history of the world, and all for a few bucks. Frankly, I'd rather have a job than 10 dollars more a day.
This song reminds me of working at my dad's shop before it went under after 35 years. I remember being 16 listening to the guys talk about Vietnam, and the steel mills. And now that i'm in college, I realize things are not going to be the same, but Youngstown is in my blood.
I miss Mahoning and Trumbull County. Went to Frank Ohl, then moved with Dad out in Niles. Its so funny, listening to this song all the roads, etc make sense now that I am older. Mineral Ridge, (Miserable Ridge) and Salt Springs Rd. etc...Love the Boss,,,and miss Ohio!! But, home is gone...they are memories..if you go into Youngstown at night..its just teeth and Eyeballs! My dad retired from LTV, just to get screwed after 27 yrs of hard ass work!
@ohiodeerhunter21 Whats funny is everyone trys to build it up..."Oh I remember it when.." Yeah....you love it so much, go hang out down on Steel Street about 10 O'clock tonite, all by your white lonesome. Hey, bring the wife as a matter of fact!!
It wasn't good then, and its even fucken worse now.
@ohiodeerhunter21 Dude, you still living there?! My old man lives in Niles, out by the Mall. Ya wanna hear a funny, he said he looks forward to the recession...he keeps a gun next to him in his chair where he naps..and says he might actually get to shoot him a coon now!
@JHGOODFELLA Yeah, I live in austintown and even though austintown isn't a bad town but imo i think a-town is gettin bad by the year and I still keep a pistol loaded ready to go just in case.
No one wrote down the sentiments of people like Bruce Springsteen. No one has sung the history of Youngstown so emotional, like Bruce Springsteen. I love you for your songs, god bless you, god bless america.
There are still many great, hard working Americans in Youngstown. Those of you in Youngstown into rap, killing, and living a loser life, GET THE HELL OUT. That includes most of the South Side. YOUNGSTOWN, the normal, people do not need or want you, you are the cancer that is bringing Youngstown down. The thug, gang banger, rapper drug dealer will soon be steamrolled OUT of Youngstown. Thanks to the Youngstown Police Dept. for arresting these street scum...we back you.
Just because it is in every town in the western world does not make it right. Unlike you, I see a better vision for all GOOD people of Youngstown. I will not cower and remain in the fetal position to those losers, thugs, punks, that try to bring Youngstown down to the rap gutter. You should expect more, whereever you live. It was the GOOD PEOPLE of Youngstown that help build OHIO and the U.S.A. Not the jailbird scum. Remember that.
@vikingjim666 Thank You VikingJim. I say what I mean and I mean what I say. It's really common sense. Remember, there are many GOOD, HONEST, NORMAL people of all races in Youngstown. It's those people I covet. The thugs, punks, gang bangers and human feces that ruin neighborhoods, this is the cancer that will be run out of Youngstown. Speak English, and pull your pants up, nobody wants to see your natty underwear, either... Keep the faith VikingJIm...
@S10man93 Youngstown was also the most dangerous city in America before the mill closed and before most of the steel community moved out believe what you want the people in Youngstown are wonderful
I need the KEY HE IS SINGING IN, the CHORDS HE IS PLAYING, and the GUITAR RIFF THAT REPEATS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. It's for school, thank you so much to all who aid me! BTW springsteen rules!!!!!!
The best performer ever they maid jackson a saint when he died if bruce died he'd be a god, jackson and his mimin best entertainer me arse, bruce is a god the greatest ever
Youngstown has experienced its ups and downs...one day, this town will be what it once used to be...and I am going to fight to make a difference in the very town I grew up in and love.
I never much cared for Bruce until this song hooked me. He showed me something --- maybe a little bit of his soul. Maybe I'm just a sucker for sad songs. Anyway, thanks Bruce.
Incredibly moving version, wow. The last verse, sung in an ominous, sneering tone, sounding like the devil: "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 o' hell" He was in character, for sure. First time seeing this, surely the first of many, many viewings.
cyclonecc 1 week ago
What a great song. I worked as a brakeman on the railroad in eastern Ohio when I came home from 'Nam in the early seventies. The decline was evident. All those plants and mills that had been so vital and alive when I was a kid, reduced to scrap and rusting hulks. The jobs gone.
1USAFVET 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
luv it Lisasimpson fan!!!haha good for you!
stoshrxrat51 1 month ago
I hear ya Andrew29400,I live & Started working at Chrysler at 18 in 1978,52 & 1/2 now!!! Thats scary in itself.PEACE PEOPLE !!!!! Life too short for the B.S.
stoshrxrat51 1 month ago
I worked at Chrysler & a mechanic as well & this song hits my soul!!!!!!!!!
stoshrxrat51 1 month ago
What a gifted musician & writer,they broke the mold w/him Down to earth,&writes about the common mans,working mans challenges.LONG LIVE THE BOSS !!
stoshrxrat51 1 month ago
I love this one :)
helhod 1 month ago
Youngstown is an incredible song....I much prefer it done like this than the rocked up version he done on later tours. It's power is in it's intimacy.
johnnyM809 2 months ago
"Once I made you rich enough, Rich enough to forget my name" that is some heavy words right there soldier.
easton1337 2 months ago 4
Long life to yongstown and springsteen
UTUBISMAILL 2 months ago 3
Occupy Youngstown!!!!!!!!!!?
fixinah 3 months ago
To the 11 people who didn't like this song please go to hell. We have been here in the valley for 8 generations. My family built this country and we have been abandoned by just about everyone. Love to you Bruce for giving us all a voice.
Lisasimpsonfan 3 months ago
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...
Amazing song!
mshellozombiekitty 4 months ago
Heej from Sweden-Capo on third fret in a A-minor position=C minor-good luck!
stallraga 4 months ago
@stallraga thanks!
m47131 4 months ago
what fret is the capo on?
m47131 4 months ago
god bless
sanch072 4 months ago in playlist sanch072's Favorited Videos
one of the greatest songs ever written.....easily on my top 10 (aside from every killers song :D...)
Smallville357 4 months ago
goosebumps...
StigJensen123 4 months ago
Raised in Youngstown 1977-2003 then moved far away. You can still see all the traces of how it use to be. I remember when there was still somewhat of an economy. Miss you Y-Town
Nightshadlia 4 months ago in playlist Bruce Springsteen
im not from younstown or ohio. im from california but when i heard this song it gets to me. It suck that companys choice money insted of pride, glory. Thats y for the past 5 years i try and buy prouducts made here in my country USA.
azt1c559 5 months ago
@azt1c559 I try to buy British products from the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution - but there isn't much leftt here either. It's all Chinese now...
StigJensen123 4 months ago
@azt1c559 they have to choose money instead of pride...that's capitalism....
StigJensen123 4 months ago
330!
osucharger 5 months ago
i used to absolutely hate bruce springsteen for no particular reason at all....i used to think "jee...someones up himself." then i heard this song.....now there is a special place in my soul for this song.
Smallville357 5 months ago
This song makes me cry ... Grandfather raised me.
johnyknine 5 months ago
10 /4 to your father he will know what i mean
sanch072 5 months ago
New Castle here.
MDProgger 5 months ago
Youngstown - my hometown. I'll always love and hate you...
MarieNC2 5 months ago 2
330 forever
ladygaga62463 5 months ago
I'm from the Croatian, Europe. I watched a documentary recently about Youngstown and the steel industry and how the economy in the U.S. collapses and especially the steel industry. From what I understand all is to blame China and their cheap labor. I'm sorry for the people who worked in the Youngstown steel industry and those who do not have a job because of the crisis that has hit the whole world. I hope that the state of the industry improve everywhere.
gkruhonj 6 months ago
Sad...My Mom's from there. I visit every year. It's the only place i've seen in the US NOT AFFECTED by the recession...cause that was the NORM.
Sad story...
TMarole 6 months ago
proud to be from Youngstown!!!
FastpitchIsLife1 6 months ago
Bruuuuuu..ce j'adore !!!!!!!!!
nathalex04 6 months ago
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andrewubaldi 6 months ago
proud to call youngstown home
dano3968 7 months ago
I grew up in Youngstown. I remember after the mills closed, the skeletons of the abandoned buildings. At least one of my grandfathers and my dad worked in the Steel Mills. Grandma used to tell us that when they heard the blast of the horns, she would have to run out and get the laundry in quick before they blew the stacks.
Dlinthe 7 months ago
very emotional
lonesumbob 7 months ago
i live in Polandd Twshp wen'y to Struthers Highschool glad to see a song about mob town u.s.a. lol
ElvisGraceland77 7 months ago
I am proud to be born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. The economy wasn’t very good but the people were and still are. I have a lot of friends that I have known for my whole life and after moving back from the West coast I realize that is a rare treasure to have in life. I also went to school with kids who came from many different socio economic statuses. We all got along and respect each other to this day.
devinkowens 7 months ago
i can understand you crying and remembering your dad, i also, cry at 'factory' when i think of my poor dad goin to work back in the seventies and losing his hearing working the hammers...bruce...your lyrics reach into everyones heart and soul...pure genius x
baggiebev 7 months ago
I'm like Schwebel's, 'Youngstown born, Youngstown bread' haha
firefghtr0103 7 months ago 2
Once back in the early 80s I took a camera down to Federal Plaza to try to capture the bleak emptiness of it. Snow, rain, boarded up storefronts...I was in my artistic haze when one lone guy, hands in pockets, crossed the street near me. "How's it goin?" I asked. Without stopping or even looking up, he said "It's a lousy day and fucking world." That's Y-town to the core.
jimko7 7 months ago
When Bruce is on it, he's damned on it! This song makes the hair on my arms and neck stand at attention every time I hear it.. Amazing..
officialjbbeverley 7 months ago
My dad was native to Youngstown, though he passed in September 2010. I only just heard about this song today from someone on Omegle. Reminds me of him...
Miss you Daddy <3
MsDelSignore 7 months ago
Unbelievable comments by users from YT. Between GM, Parker-Hann., the new V&M facility (and the construction project itself); and among others like Gasser, we have an amazingly diverse manufacturing base. There is a good nightlife, services are strong--you can find any corporate agglomeration, eg, Ruby Tuesday, Applebees, etc. AND we are also starting to compete with Pittsburgh in the financial sector. YSU is great, Mill Creek is beautiful. Respect the past, but keep looking forward.
jezetts01 8 months ago
@jezetts01 are you kidding? Have you see the south side? must be writing this from Canfield.
mikejones1003 7 months ago
I go to YSU and I can't wait to get the hell out of there.
bkroberts89 8 months ago
Wow
AnthonyTheSage 8 months ago
Youngstsown is the the perfect example of the American dream failing. Steel made the town and destroyed it. I saw Bruce play this at an Obama rally at Ohio State. Gives me the chills every time I hear it. My mom is from there and my uncle still lives in Hubbard. The place is as depressing as the song. sad.
fender123123 8 months ago
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Awesome song, Youngstown babby
illini141 8 months ago
Awesome song, Youngstown babby
illini141 8 months ago
Grew up in this area. Have deflinitley seen hard times there. it's still home, though.
tcamlin 9 months ago
i live in youngstown
BigHeadKid23 10 months ago
I'm from Cleveland and it's pretty much the same story there. My uncle and cousins worked for J&L Steel until they laid everyone off. My grandfather was coal miner just outside of Pittsburgh.. God Bless them all and Bruce Springsteen.!
XCTowner 10 months ago 2
I went to Youngstown State University. Grew up in that area. I remember how much I looked forward to the downtown shopping at Christmas time at McKelvys and Isely's Ice Cream. Spent a lot of time ice skating and sledding in Mill Creek Park. Sometimes I really miss that area and time, even though it is so depressed.
TheRidgeback01 10 months ago
Im Honored to have lived there! :)
Geegee12396 10 months ago
he is a real master
mukosia1 10 months ago
that is awesome!
themiraclejones 10 months ago
My grandpa worked in the steel mills in Youngstown. He still lives there today off Belmont Ave
justjosh0368 10 months ago
I have no f***ing audio!
MOLLIEJULIE 11 months ago
I still live in this God-forsaken place.
Andrew29400 1 year ago 15
@Andrew29400 what's bad about youngstown?
jake110118 11 months ago
@jake110118 everything dude. My dad teaches there, and it's pretty rough. I mean, I live on one of the cities outlying it, which is nice, but youngstown itself is hell. Btw, the east and north side are the worst.
Andrew29400 11 months ago
This song is about Youngstown not Pittsburg!!!!! So give y-town what's its worth!!! And I'm only 13
giannaluvsyou 1 year ago
"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"
How much more working class does it get? Amazing.
Koindrank 1 year ago 6
@Koindrank And now Earthquakes?
swag77 1 week ago
good ole y town, used to get my dope there.
nexivdr 1 year ago
When I hear this song, all I can think of is Pittsburgh and its history. Why is it not called Pittsburgh?
nebraska9000 1 year ago
@nebraska9000 Speaking as a citizen of Youngstown, I've gotta say, Pitt's comparatively well off. They recovered from the steel crash and found new economic security in new forms of industry - Youngstown never did. Also, it facilitates the rhyme in the refrain. :P
Vertigo688 1 year ago
@Vertigo688 very true. Youngstown was steel... Pittsburgh has other things going on.
nebraska9000 1 year ago 2
@nebraska9000 Youngstown is dead and buried. Pittsburgh is not. They may not make steel any more in Pittsburgh, but life goes on. Not so in Youngstown.
JamieA6666 1 year ago
here in youngstown my home town
ElvisGraceland77 1 year ago
This song makes my eyes water. Makes me think of my grandpa. Powerful song. Thanks for posting.
jimvols 1 year ago 3
Youngstown is still a shit town. :(
ladyverrucktheit 1 year ago
marvellous
mellobbello 1 year ago
Oh, you can hear Steinbeck in every line. Simply amazing.
timdalf 1 year ago 8
he looks funneh!! :D:D:D:D:D:DXDXDXD
theDonutmonkey 1 year ago
SONY pulled the version of this where NILS WAILS on the solo....SONY YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!
IwantJenniferConelly 1 year ago 4
I grew up in Niles, Warren, Youngstown~!
tcamlin 1 year ago 2
Well, Youngstown, we here on the west coast are watching closely to see what great things you do with redevelopment and the business incubator. I live in Carson City NV now and we are beginning to redevelop our downtown and start a business incubator as well. We could both learn a lot from each other. I miss my scrappy Y-town relatives and friends and God Bless all of you who stayed and look forward to the future of the Mahoning Valley. I hope to see you again before my time here is done.
n2wishinn 1 year ago 2
nice
lisameszaros1 1 year ago
when i die i dont want no part of heaven - i would not do heavens work well - i pray the devil comes takes me to burn in the firey furnances of hell
FOAMER103061 1 year ago
@FOAMER103061 Very working class to me thouse lines. To me it´s about knowing your place in life maybe a bit too well.
Koindrank 1 year ago
Springsteen's finest song. Agreed!
Tobbelito78 1 year ago
...them smoke stacks reachin' like the hands of god into a beautiful sky of sort & clay....
Unreal.
incident1985 1 year ago
@incident1985 he paints musical word pictures in my head :)
n2wishinn 1 year ago 2
Thanks to Robert (yougstown) for sharing. Wonderful! Love and Light - Sharine
SharineONeill 1 year ago
Very nice, share, Robert (Youngstown1977)...really liked this! Love, Red
milliondollarredhead 1 year ago
great tribuate to Youngstown the Boss
youngstown1977 1 year ago
this reminds me of who and where i came from
n2wishinn 1 year ago 13
@n2wishinn
I know what you mean. The last lines give me chills because I think of my grandfather.
Those are his words.
MegaAldoN 1 year ago 3
@MegaAldoN I have many hungarian relatives buried in the graveyards of Youngstown. For some dumb reason I never put 2 and 2 together when they told me as a little girl that my dads uncle frank died in an accident at the mill. I was thinking saw mill. we lived in the country near canfield, so I was not as exposed to the reality of the mills until i grew up. we moved west in 1978 - both my parents were born at southside hospital in Youngstown. I hope the mahoning valley can and will recover.
n2wishinn 1 year ago
I cry everytime I hear this song because it reminds me of my Dad. He worked for 42 years in those "fiery furnaces of hell" at Republic Steel in Youngstown. I wish he had lived long enough to hear this song, but he passed in 1984. Republic Steel sucked the life out of him! Here's to you, Dad!
donnap211 1 year ago 102
@donnap211 Braddock PA too
ehhdatzbunk 6 months ago
sorry for my bad english
Markkassel 1 year ago
my dad was born in youngstown he is today exactly one year dead, i must see where my rules are
i must see youngstown one time in me live
Markkassel 1 year ago
@Markkassel Youngstown is just like a rundown town with all the blacks that live here. The houses they live in all look like shit cause they don't take care of it at all. The crime rate is terrible. I think is the worst town for murder rates in Ohio. Just about every street needs repaved and the city cant afford it. I think Y-town just needs to be demolished and rebuit from the ground up.
ohiodeerhunter21 1 year ago
I wonder if $20 mil a year is enough to make Don Blankenship FORGET 29 NAMES. Why haven't the people of that town dragged him down the street and stuffed him face first into that vent shaft.
smedleyB 1 year ago 2
Fuck Don Blankenship.
delnortez 1 year ago
Impecable todavia siento escalofrios
akiabara1000 1 year ago
@akiabara1000 sientes escalofrios? jajajaja pero en la cola ...viejo patetico!!!
karonte9090 1 year ago
@karonte9090 uy,volvio el retardado.¡te soltaron!seguramente te dieron la condicional.
akiabara1000 1 year ago
This really is one of his great songs, check the full band version on his Live in NY City DVD, very very powerful................
harhar58 1 year ago
i live i youngstown to. but more in austintown tho
rusty10690 1 year ago
...
well my daddy come home on the Ohıo works
when he come home from Word War Two
now the yard's just scrap and rubble
he saıd ''them bıg boys dıd what Hıtler couldn't do.''
these mılls they buılt the tanks and bombs
that won thıs country's wars
now we're wonderıng what they were dyın' for...
the story's always the same...
we sent our sons to Korea and Vıetnam
sindbad76karoL 1 year ago 2
AWESOME AS ALWAYS...
ARABIANSandHARLEYS 1 year ago 2
AWESOME
ARABIANSandHARLEYS 1 year ago
Love this song live right out of youngstown in warren
4x4MuddDigger 1 year ago
@4x4MuddDigger yeah your like 25 mins from y-town. I'm only 3 mins away from the y-town border.
ohiodeerhunter21 1 year ago
Bruce Springsteen, you rock! My credits from far Tajikistan in Central Asia. Fell in love with this song.
finchmusht 1 year ago 2
yah i live in youngstown, ohio!
softballqt1760 2 years ago
Prolly one of the best songs he ever did/wrote. You could put this beside "the river" and it would stand on it's own. IMO. This video is proof that a guitar and a message is all you need! And to whoever wrote the comment that the last verse is chilling: certainly is. I got goosebumps when i heard it. I love this album as well as "Nebraska" and "Devils & Dust"". But this album was truly relaxing on a different level that "Nebraska" wasnt. Nebraska is STILL a good album almost 30 yrs later!
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Him playing this song in Youngstown turns the meaning and deepness of this song into something different, more impressive ... it makes me shudder.
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Linccccc 2 years ago
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america is a stupid nation , kaboomba kabomba is intelligent, so why is he your "president"
AMISSOKO 2 years ago
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America is a Christian nation, kaboomba kabomba is a muslim, so why is he our "president"?
buckeast1 2 years ago
Since when to your first point? .
Since you are pretty ignorant, I'll explain: America means nothing. You meant The United States (America could be North, South, Central, but you get my drift).
The USA is a secular nation, predominantly populated by people who are Christian.
He's President because he got an overwhelming majority of the electoral college votes.
If he were Muslim, he would still be President if he got 50% plus 1 of the electoral college votes.
RudyCasordapek 2 years ago 2
I think you'll find that the founding fathers purposefully kept religion and state separate in order to discourage that kind of thinking
glebemeadow 2 years ago
Favourited this many moons ago..just needed another listen. Sweet & SOLID!
Great song!
canfor5 2 years ago
BEAUTIFUL SONG
jolandasterbloem 2 years ago 2
my dad was born in youngstown in 1955
R.I.P Daddy
greets from Germany
Markkassel 2 years ago 3
YOUNGSTOWN RULES
youngstown1977 2 years ago
I wish I knew the steel Mahoning valley like my dad did. I was born in 1980 when they were closing up. Just like Akron and the rubber mills.
Those two cites were hit hard when everything was pimped out to China. Its because cities like Youngstown, Detroit , Birmingham , Akron , Pittsburgh , and Cleveland that made winning WW2 possible. . Japanese spies where overwhelmed at our production and resourceful labor.
bobbrode314 2 years ago 3
Why didn't the Boss ever return? He wrote a song, came here and gave the poor down-trodden people a little show and never came back.
Song is good. it truly captures the despair you would feel driving through Youngstown, esp the dead industrial areas. it stands as a testament to America's past as well as it;'s future.
ULTIMOBD 2 years ago 3
this song makes billy joels allentown look like a great place to live
curlballn 2 years ago 2
Well, I dont knów about "not being near"...
His father worked pretty much inside one...
Nikmol2000 2 years ago
I live in Youngstown and go to Youngstown State University. Even though everything is closing shop and people are moving out, it is still a hardworking city. Yes there are people bringing it down, but I call it home.
scream200682 2 years ago 2
I have not been to Youngstown in 20 years but I have friends who grew up there and their father still lives there. I remember Federal Street when it was as busy as 42nd Street is in New York, my hometown. Its a damn shame what's happened in Youngstown and elsewhere. The robber barons of the 1800's built a nation, the robber barons of today have mortgaged it to the Chinese.
Bluesky821 2 years ago 39
@Bluesky821 Robber Barons of the gilded age did just the same shit they are doing today. It's not they that built this nation - it was normal, hard-working, middle class citizens and immigrants that build this nation. You know, like the people Bruce it talking about in this tune.
Umberto2 1 year ago
@Bluesky821 Chief robber baron in this country's history: George Meany, followed by Lane Kirkland. Together, they were responsible for destroying the largest steel producing region in the history of the world, and all for a few bucks. Frankly, I'd rather have a job than 10 dollars more a day.
nebraska9000 11 months ago
What a great song
from the coal mines of appalachia... makes my heart hurt for my grandfather
the last verse, chills
MegaAldoN 2 years ago
This song reminds me of working at my dad's shop before it went under after 35 years. I remember being 16 listening to the guys talk about Vietnam, and the steel mills. And now that i'm in college, I realize things are not going to be the same, but Youngstown is in my blood.
joesuzz1303 2 years ago
I miss Mahoning and Trumbull County. Went to Frank Ohl, then moved with Dad out in Niles. Its so funny, listening to this song all the roads, etc make sense now that I am older. Mineral Ridge, (Miserable Ridge) and Salt Springs Rd. etc...Love the Boss,,,and miss Ohio!! But, home is gone...they are memories..if you go into Youngstown at night..its just teeth and Eyeballs! My dad retired from LTV, just to get screwed after 27 yrs of hard ass work!
JHGOODFELLA 2 years ago
I went to "The Old A.M.S", damn its weird seeing stuff from the next street over on youtube lol
S10man93 2 years ago
@S10man93 when did you go to AMS? I was there in the mid 70's -- building is up for sale since they built the new one..
vikingjim666 1 year ago
@vikingjim666 I graduated their 4 years ago lol. But are you Viking Jim from 93.3?
S10man93 1 year ago
@JHGOODFELLA Teeth and eyeballs....LOL you are right about that. Y-town is so over runned by blacks that just make the city look like shit.
ohiodeerhunter21 1 year ago
@ohiodeerhunter21 Whats funny is everyone trys to build it up..."Oh I remember it when.." Yeah....you love it so much, go hang out down on Steel Street about 10 O'clock tonite, all by your white lonesome. Hey, bring the wife as a matter of fact!!
It wasn't good then, and its even fucken worse now.
JHGOODFELLA 1 year ago
@ohiodeerhunter21 Dude, you still living there?! My old man lives in Niles, out by the Mall. Ya wanna hear a funny, he said he looks forward to the recession...he keeps a gun next to him in his chair where he naps..and says he might actually get to shoot him a coon now!
JHGOODFELLA 1 year ago
@JHGOODFELLA Yeah, I live in austintown and even though austintown isn't a bad town but imo i think a-town is gettin bad by the year and I still keep a pistol loaded ready to go just in case.
ohiodeerhunter21 1 year ago
@ohiodeerhunter21 -- racist.
vikingjim666 1 year ago
No one wrote down the sentiments of people like Bruce Springsteen. No one has sung the history of Youngstown so emotional, like Bruce Springsteen. I love you for your songs, god bless you, god bless america.
FuNKyHotMix 2 years ago
springsteen is on dylans level when it comes to expressing emotions thru songs.
fruknullarn 2 years ago
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CMsurvive11 2 months ago
There are still many great, hard working Americans in Youngstown. Those of you in Youngstown into rap, killing, and living a loser life, GET THE HELL OUT. That includes most of the South Side. YOUNGSTOWN, the normal, people do not need or want you, you are the cancer that is bringing Youngstown down. The thug, gang banger, rapper drug dealer will soon be steamrolled OUT of Youngstown. Thanks to the Youngstown Police Dept. for arresting these street scum...we back you.
DodgeFan439 2 years ago 5
´that is every town in the western world =/
fruknullarn 2 years ago
Just because it is in every town in the western world does not make it right. Unlike you, I see a better vision for all GOOD people of Youngstown. I will not cower and remain in the fetal position to those losers, thugs, punks, that try to bring Youngstown down to the rap gutter. You should expect more, whereever you live. It was the GOOD PEOPLE of Youngstown that help build OHIO and the U.S.A. Not the jailbird scum. Remember that.
DodgeFan439 2 years ago
@DodgeFan439 AMEN BROTHER!!!!
vikingjim666 1 year ago
@vikingjim666 Thank You VikingJim. I say what I mean and I mean what I say. It's really common sense. Remember, there are many GOOD, HONEST, NORMAL people of all races in Youngstown. It's those people I covet. The thugs, punks, gang bangers and human feces that ruin neighborhoods, this is the cancer that will be run out of Youngstown. Speak English, and pull your pants up, nobody wants to see your natty underwear, either... Keep the faith VikingJIm...
DodgeFan439 1 year ago
you said it, I can't go to West Side Merchants anymore with out feeling in danger. Thats bad!
S10man93 2 years ago
that not really fair has anyone there tried to hurt or do you believe that all inner city people are like the few dirt bags you see on the news
visual1677 1 year ago
@visual1677 huh?
MegaAldoN 1 year ago
@visual1677 well, I believe what I see on the news, seeing as how Youngstown is the 15th most dangerous city in America.
Google "the most dangerous cities in America" because it won't let me post the link.
S10man93 1 year ago
@S10man93 Youngstown was also the most dangerous city in America before the mill closed and before most of the steel community moved out believe what you want the people in Youngstown are wonderful
visual1677 1 year ago
@S10man93 you shouldn't feel that way -- crime os worse at the Southern Park Mall than it is in the Yo... look it up...
vikingjim666 1 year ago
thank's alot i wish i was there
youngstown1977 2 years ago
Spine chilling. Bruce you are amazing. The one and the only!
npbh1368 2 years ago 14
I second that, he is the absolute best!!!!
BruceBloodSister1 2 years ago 2
I need the KEY HE IS SINGING IN, the CHORDS HE IS PLAYING, and the GUITAR RIFF THAT REPEATS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. It's for school, thank you so much to all who aid me! BTW springsteen rules!!!!!!
ludog92 2 years ago
I cant see exactly where is capo is..I think his capo is on the 5th fret which would mean he is in Dm.
If he is infact on the 4th fret he is in C#m.
He uses the chords Dm. A and E.
which if Am C and G if you are not using a capo.
Hope that helps you
stratocaster94538 2 years ago
I think he is singing in Dm if not he is in C#m.
When he is in Dm just keep putting your index finger on and off the 2nd string.. I really hope this helps...............
stratocaster94538 2 years ago
fantastic
frippp66 2 years ago
Awesome, in the original sense. Spine-chillingly Awesome.
mrplease66 2 years ago
I live in Youngstown, what a great place gone to shit, once a strong steel town gone to a foundation for crime and rap music
padawgpounder 2 years ago 3
hello from France !
saw him in Carhaix festival.
he was great, as usual...
fahrenheit961 2 years ago
The best performer ever they maid jackson a saint when he died if bruce died he'd be a god, jackson and his mimin best entertainer me arse, bruce is a god the greatest ever
09Leroy 2 years ago 6
he played it at hyde park London, July 2009.
Preceded the song by simply saying 'hard times' both here and at home'......
russellecollins 2 years ago
grew up in Canfield...went away to school and for my career, but will always call Youngstown home.
swcrowe 2 years ago
Haha I live in Struthers.
burdman13 2 years ago
Youngstown has experienced its ups and downs...one day, this town will be what it once used to be...and I am going to fight to make a difference in the very town I grew up in and love.
theoneDN1 2 years ago 5
I live in Cornersburg
Scottina4145 2 years ago
I never much cared for Bruce until this song hooked me. He showed me something --- maybe a little bit of his soul. Maybe I'm just a sucker for sad songs. Anyway, thanks Bruce.
bullitbullderbeast 2 years ago 5
Yeh same with me. Wasnt a fan till I heard this song.
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pknyo 2 years ago