List of songs about Ohio

This is a list of songs written about the U.S. state of Ohio:

Title Artist/composer Album Date Description
"Back Home" The Beach Boys 15 Big Ones/Made in California 1976
"Beautiful Ohio" MacDonaldBallard MacDonald 1918 Made the official state song of Ohio in 1969.
"Big Butter Jesus" Heywood Banks We Just Landed! 2007 Refers to the King of Kings statue near Monroe, Ohio, which was destroyed by a lightning strike on June 14, 2010.
"Bloodbuzz Ohio" The National High Violet 2010
"Boy in Ohio" Phil Ochs Greatest Hits 1970
"Burn On" Randy Newman Sail Away 1971
"Carmen Ohio" CornellFred Cornell 1903 The oldest school song still in use by Ohio State University.
"Carry Me Ohio" Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway 2003 The song's narrative is partly based on frontman Mark Kozelek's boyhood in Ohio.[1]
"Cleveland Rocks" HunterIan Hunter You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic 1979 A cover version was used as the theme song for The Drew Carey Show in the 1990s.[2]
"Cuyahoga" R.E.M. Life's Rich Pageant 1986 About the once-heavily polluted Cuyahoga River; the lyrics reference when it caught fire in 1969, which became a watershed incident in the environmental movement.[3]
"Dayton Ohio, 1903" Randy Newman Sail Away 1971
"Dreamy Bruises" Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso 2014
"Escape from Ohio" Electric Six Kill 2009
"Four Days" Counting Crows This Desert Life 1999
"The Girl from Ohio" Outlaws Lady in Waiting 1976
"Going to Cleveland" The Mountain Goats Transmissions to Horace 1993
"In Ohio" Joseph Arthur Our Shadows Will Remain 2004
"In Ohio on Some Steps" Limbeck Hi, Everything's Great. 2003
"Lisbon, OH" Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver 2011
"Look At Miss Ohio" Gillian Welch Soul Journey 2003
"Look Out Cleveland" The Band The Band 1970
"Mrs. Hippopotamus" Relient K Air For Free
"My City Was Gone" The Pretenders single 1982 The song is an autobiographical lament about the singer returning to her childhood home in Ohio and discovering that rampant development and pollution had destroyed the "pretty countryside" of her youth; the lyrics make specific references to places in and around Akron, Ohio, the hometown of lead singer and writer Chrissie Hynde.
"My Ohio Home" Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson 1927
"O-HI-O (O-My-O)" Al Jolson 1920
"Ohio" Leonard Bernstein, et al. 1953 From the Broadway musical Wonderful Town, about two sisters who move to New York City from Columbus, Ohio; in the song, they lament leaving.
"Ohio" Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young single 1970 Written by Neil Young in reaction to the 1970 Kent State Shootings, after he saw the photos of the incident in Life Magazine.[4] Charted at #14 on Billboard Hot 100.
"Ohio" Isabelle Adjani Pull Marine 1983 Song in French by actress Isabelle Adjani, written by Serge Gainsbourg.
"Ohio" Modest Mouse This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About 1996
"Ohio" Chixdiggit! Born on the first of July 1998
"Ohio" Cherry Glazerr Stuffed & Ready 2019
"Ohio" Damien Jurado Rehearsals for Departure 1999
"Ohio" Over the Rhine Ohio 2003
"Ohio" The Black Keys Brothers (bonus track) 2011
"Ohio" Justice (band) Audio, Video, Disco 2011
"Ohio" Kingswood Microscopic Wars 2013
"Ohio" Caamp Caamp 2016
"Ohio" Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness 2018 The single was not written for an album; it was released digitally in May 2018.[5]
"Ohio (Come Back to Texas)" Bowling for Soup Hangover You Don't DeserveA Hangover You Don't Deserve 2005
"Ohio Is for Lovers" Hawthorne Heights Silence in Black and WhiteThe Silence in Black and White 2004
"Ohioisonfire" Of Mice & Men FloodThe Flood 2011
"Road Outside Columbus" O.A.R. In Between Now and Then 2003
"Somewhere In Ohio" The Jayhawks Smile 2000
"Youngstown" Bruce Springsteen Ghost of Tom JoadThe Ghost of Tom Joad 1995 The song tells the tale of the rise and fall of Youngstown, Ohio, over several generations, from the discovery of iron ore nearby in 1803 through the decline of the steel industry in the area in the 1970s.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Jurek, Thom, Review: Ghosts of the Great Highway, Allmusic, retrieved August 6, 2011.
  2. ^ "Cleveland Rocks by Ian Hunter Songfacts". Songfacts. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
  3. ^ Greene, Jay (April 21, 2011), "Earth Day, R.E.M., Tea Party, Big Oil, the future of wind and solar power in Michigan, America", Crain's Detroit Business, retrieved August 6, 2011.
  4. ^ McDonough, Jimmy (2002). Shakey. New York: Anchor Books. p. 345. ISBN 0-679-75096-7.
  5. ^ "Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness shares surprise new track, Ohio". ABC Radio. May 11, 2018. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  6. ^ Sawyers, J.S. (2006). Tougher Than the Rest. Omnibus Press. pp. 140–142. ISBN 978-0-8256-3470-3.