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Monday, September 15, 2008
Hey Buddy!
After today's economic news, and in anticipation of the news to come, I offer this, via www.horsesass.org:
Dan, I think I’ll go home and listen to “The Ghost of Tom Joad.”
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…
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 you tell me the world’s changed Once I made you rich enough Rich enough to forget my name
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Dan, I think I’ll go home and listen to “The Ghost of Tom Joad.”
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…
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 you tell me the world’s changed
Once I made you rich enough
Rich enough to forget my name
In Youngstown
In Youngstown …
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