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4 diddle-ee o-i-o
4 dead in Ohio
For Dad in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
For dad in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Forget in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Forget it, Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio
Forgetting Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Fort Dannon, Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta find Hoover and bang his head on the ground
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground
More head in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
O day de do di do
Four dead in Ohio
Oh Daddy Ohio
4 dead in Ohio
Oh Daddy and Oh Hi Ho
Four dead in Ohio
Oh, baby, Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Poor Teddy and Ohio
or
Boy dead in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Poor dad in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Poor daddy and Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Poor daddy in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Editor's note: Neil Young himself wrote the song, and provided the lead vocal on the recording... but I'm not sure if he ever recorded a solo version of it.
Poor daddy rolled his own.
Four dead in ohio
Poor daddy, oh-my-oh.
Four dead in Ohio.
Poor man in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Soldiers are coming to town
Soldiers are cutting us down
Soldiers are cutting us down.
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Ten soldiers and Nixon's coming
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
This summer I hear the strumming,
forget the Ohio
This summer I hear the drumming,
four dead in Ohio.
This summer I heard them comin', oh daddy, in Ohio
Gotta get down to him
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
Gotta get it through her head - pound her head on the ground
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
I was too young to know what the song was about so rather than being shocked by the Nixon administration and sociopolitical climate I thought it was shockingly misogynous!
Tin soldiers and Vixen coming
or
Tin soldiers and Blitzen coming
or
Ten soldiers and Vixen coming
or
Ten soldiers and Blitzen coming
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
What if you found her dead on the ground
4 dead in Ohio
What if you knew that four people were dead on the ground?
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?
You smell in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio