Sweet Jenny
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
Springsteen playing "Youngstown" live solo in Youngstown →
(Youngstown is taken from his fab album The Ghost of Tom Joad, with Tom Joad of course being the Steinbeck Joad, while Sweet Jenny is the Jeannette blast furnace of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company.)
Entry first published 2009-05-18 01:00, last edited 2009-05-20 19:22
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