List of songs about Ohio

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

TitleArtist/composerAlbumDateDescription
"Beautiful Ohio"MacDonaldBallard MacDonald1918Made the official state song of Ohio in 1969.
"Big Butter Jesus"Heywood BanksWe Just Landed!2007Refers to the King of Kings statue near Monroe, Ohio, which was destroyed by a lightning strike on June 14, 2010.
"Bloodbuzz Ohio" The NationalHigh Violet2010
"Boy in Ohio"Phil OchsGreatest Hits1970
"Burn On"Randy NewmanSail Away1980
"Carmen Ohio"CornellFred Cornell1903The oldest school song still in use by The Ohio State University.
"Carry Me Ohio"Sun Kil MoonGhosts of the Great Highway2003The song's narrative is partly based on frontman Mark Kozelek's boyhood in Ohio.[1]
"Cleveland Rocks"HunterIan HunterYou're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic1979A cover version was used as the theme song for The Drew Carey Show in the 1990s.[2]
"Cuyahoga"R.E.M.Life's Rich Pageant1986About 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 NewmanSail Away1980
"Dreamy Bruises"Sylvan EssoSylvan Esso2014
"Escape from Ohio"Electric SixKill2009
"Four Days"Counting CrowsThis Desert Life1999
"The Girl from Ohio"OutlawsLady in Waiting1976
"Going to Cleveland"The Mountain GoatsTransmissions to Horace1993
"In Ohio"Joseph ArthurOur Shadows Will Remain 2004
"In Ohio on Some Steps"LimbeckHi, Everything's Great.2003
"Lisbon, OH"Bon IverBon Iver, Bon Iver2011
"Look At Miss Ohio"Gillian WelchSoul Journey2003
"Look Out Cleveland"The BandThe Band1970
"Mrs. Hippopotamus"Relient KAir For Free
"My City Was Gone"The Pretenderssingle1982The 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.
"O-HI-O (O-My-O)"Al Jolson1920
"Ohio"Leonard Bernstein, et al.1953From 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 & Youngsingle1970Written 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 AdjaniPull Marine1983Song in French by actress Isabelle Adjani, written by Serge Gainsbourg.
"Ohio"Modest MouseThis Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About1996
"Ohio"Damien JuradoRehearsals for Departure1999
"Ohio" Over the RhineOhio2003
"Ohio"The Black KeysBrothers (bonus track)2011
"Ohio"Justice (band)Audio, Video, Disco 2011
"Ohio"KingswoodMicroscopic Wars2013
"Ohio"Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness2018The single was not written for an album; it was released digitally in May 2018.[5]
"Ohio (Come Back to Texas)"Bowling for SoupHangover You Don't DeserveA Hangover You Don't Deserve2005
"Ohio Is for Lovers"Hawthorne HeightsSilence in Black and WhiteThe Silence in Black and White2004
"Ohioisonfire"Of Mice & MenFloodThe Flood2011
"Road Outside Columbus"O.A.R.In Between Now and Then 2003
"Youngstown"Bruce SpringsteenGhost of Tom JoadThe Ghost of Tom Joad1995The 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]

Liz Phair Cinco de Mayo 1994

References

  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.
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