pittsburgh town pittsburgh town titled pittsburgh pittsburgh town folk song written originally recorded song written pittsburgh pennsylvania stop singers tour members band time song speaks labor environmental problems city facing song written time environmental legislation reduced pollution problem plagued pittsburgh song mentions pollution pittsburgh replaced verses city creation stories origin song historians trace pittsburgh town singers national tour according liner notes originally released july group recorded fourteen songs small record label new_jersey paid purchase traveled subsequent tour stopped pittsburgh pennsylvania group decided play steel workers process played nights concerts steel patch sleeping infested hotel second concert started lyrics tune folk song hole song entire body came jam session continued improving created second verse song point liner notes tell different story song creation state wrote song airborne flight pittsburgh looking window skies quickly lyrics lyrics themes song verses alternate ones speak environmental problems pittsburgh ones speak labor problems verse refers pittsburgh town complains speaker choke steel industry output smoke present life pittsburgh time song writing steel mills banks city rivers sky glow red continually released smoke modern reviewers song believe pollution oriented verses song written protest environmental conditions workers forced live second fourth verses focus labor disputes city experiencing time second verse uses pun jones ask company stole workers jones steal fourth final verse ends statement mill workers joining recordings adaptations song covered artists community groups studio version album american industrial ballads live version song album songs struggle protest versions feature singing playing additional accompaniment live version crowd singing heard folk bands pittsburgh area recorded performed version song released adaptation song album folk songs version song includes additional verses landscape geography region song covered students verses political original composition closer version version verses partly middle 1950s enforcement cleaned air lyrics town replaced line pittsburgh town great old town links
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