Neil Young CSN - Ohio

From Déjà Vu (1970)
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OHIO

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 gunning 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 gunning 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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[ctweebee]

@rjwintl I lived in London, England at the time, and we marched down Oxford Street to the American Embassy on Grovener Square to protest the secret bombings in Cambodia and the killing of the Ohio 4 who were protesting against it. Now here we are, our government supporting killing people in Libya for freedom and democracy when we know democracy isn't freedom. It's two wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner. America was created to be a democratic republic, not that.

[cousiwa09]

beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE, LOVE, THAT GUITAR!

[ginberryblue]

"We're finally on our own", indeed.

[ginberryblue]

I was 12. The girl in the picture screaming over the student's dead body was 16. This was THE song. The hair on the back of my neck stood straight up when this came on the radio. Today in our Biebered world it's hard to imagine the feeling of chaos, the feeling of real warfare breaking out. MLK and Bobby Kennedy shot, dogs sicced on civil rights marchers, Fred Hampton killed in his bed by stormtrooping pigs, protesters teargassed, kids beaten in Chicago, flaming riots, Weathermen and Panthers

[ctweebee]

@MsSmithereens I thought Challenge1 meant Neil was the better for worse for substances when he was playing (pissed is slang for intoxicated). He think he means Neil was mad that he didn't get writing credits, which I'll have to check on. Writing credits on a song ensures royalties--moola. They said they wanted to change the world, but they wanted to make money too.

[MsSmithereens]

@ctweebee about what?

[Callenge1]

@ctweebee Hmmm, not always pissed but certainly not afraid to speak his mind, but Kent State really affected him. Click on a couple of videos on the right such as "Tell Me Why," or "Wooden Ships." Yup, he was at Woodstock with CS&N. He played with Buffalo Springfield while Stills was there. They both played "For What It's Worth." Wherever CS&N are Young is not far away and the opposite holds true.

[ctweebee]

@Callenge1 God! Was he always pissed?

[Callenge1]

This song is NOT on the Deja vu album. Neil Young wrote this song and he was totally pissed. Can you hear it in his guitar? Can you hear the outrage in his lyrics? Neil wrote in an hour and it was released one week later. In those days that was just not done.

[paulmcs]

The Kent State shootings were so outrageous, that for most of us, they were ineffable. It took Neil to put it into words.

[ilikemusic45]

IEVE IT OR NOT WHEN I WAS 23 I WENT ON THE ROAD WITH CROSBY STILLS AND NASH . HAD FUN UNTIL MY MOTHERINLAW TOLD ME A WAS TO GET MY BUT HOME AND TAKE CARE OF MY 5 YR OLD. OH WELL I HAD A WEEK OF FUN AND MUSIC IN CHICAGO

[ilikemusic45]

THANKSFOR THE FEEDBACK GODBLESS HOWS YOUR GUITAR PLAYIN