Lyrics to
Ohio

This version of Ohio was released by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby in 1971.

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Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

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About Lyrics and Ohio by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby

When you decide to study the lyrics to Ohio, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby. Some of the lyrics to Ohio have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Stills, Nash & Young Crosby and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Ohio if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Ohio" means the words set to the music of Ohio, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Ohio and the lyrics to Ohio are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Stills, Nash & Young Crosby who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ohio, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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