Ohio
By: Neil Young
Tabbed By: Chase Tiley
e|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|--------10-------------------------|
G|---------------------------10h12-10---|--10h12----12-10-9/7---------------|
D|------3/5--5/7--7/9--9/12-------------|---------------------7/9-9---------|
A|--3/5---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
e|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
B|----13-13-----------------------------|-----------------------------------|
G|-----------12h14--10-12---------------|-----------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------|-17/15--12-------------15/17-15-12-|
A|--------------------------------------|-----------15p12-15p12-------------|
D|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
Then this one yea man after the chorus
e|3h5--5p3----3---------------------|--3--3--1/3-5-5-5-5-5-5/10-----------|
B|----------5---5-3-----------------|-------------------------------------|
G|-------------------5-5------------|-------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
B|--13b15-15-14-12--14-14-12----12--|-14-14-12--------------------------|
G|---------------------------14-----|----------14--12h14-14-------------|
D|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
B|--13-15-15-13-12-12---------------|-----------------------------------|
G|--------------------14-14-14h16-14|-14-12-----------------------------|
D|----------------------------------|-------15-14-12--------------------|
A|----------------------------------|----------------15b17-17-----------|
D|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Goat Average |
#1 by Goat Screwer at Sep 30, 2007 at 2:39 AM EST |
| There may have been faults on both sides - but the National Guard did not need to kill 4 students - what about tear gas? Apparently when Stephen Stills first heard this song he cried - such was the emotional effect. | |
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kelson Average |
#2 by kelson white at Sep 30, 2007 at 4:17 PM EST |
| It's 'Tin Soldiers,' not 'The soldiers' Tin soldiers, as in the ROTC soldiers | |
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Mike Lead Player |
#3 by Mike at Sep 30, 2007 at 6:16 PM EST |
| Odd thing is, according to disinfo.com, there were two other such incidents that happened around the same time. Ten days after Kent State, two students at the predominently black Jackson State University in MIssissippi were gunned down because of chaos and paranoia among the police and student body. Even more, two years before at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg had a massacre of three students over a racial incident. Why don't you hear songs written about these incidents? I wonder sometimes. | |
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Len Badass |
#4 by Len cullum at Oct 1, 2007 at 4:58 PM EST |
| When I hear this song, I always think of the famous picture from the Kent State shooting ( a stunned, horrified person kneeling over one of the dead students). What if I had known this person?... found them dead on the ground?.....I also like the way Young uses the cadence-like rythm to give you that feel of soldiers marching. Scary to think of the United States Military marching against her own (unnarmed) people!!!!!! | |
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Alex Average |
#5 by Alex P at Oct 2, 2007 at 4:56 PM EST |
| Shit happens. Good song. | |
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steve Wanna Be |
#6 by steve hoffmann at Oct 3, 2007 at 8:51 PM EST |
| "They" as a whole.. the whole group of protestors.. I'm sure there were individuals that were not attacking these guards, and didn't deserve anything close to injury or death.. So let me clarify that. What I really mean to say is that we can't pigheadedly blame one side.. and give a free pass to the other. It's not the evil Nixon administration that killed these people.. Nixon didn;t orer the guard to shoot innocent hippies, so why would Neil Young include him in the song? it's all hate mongering in a different sense.. The very thing people like Young were supposed to stand against. | |
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patrick Wanna Be |
#7 by patrick at Oct 5, 2007 at 6:46 PM EST |
| Well lets not forget the facts that suround the shootings. The soilders didn't just march up to a collage and shoot some kids. There was plenty that lead the way to this. There had been massive distruction in this town do to party kids. SO the city imposed a curflew. The kids thinking this was aginst them looted the twon. Enter the nation gaurd the guard was called in to keep peace and be a presences by the govener. At the sametime a (peacful) sit-in was organized by students of the school to protest the movment into Cambiodia. The nation gaurd didn;'t know much about it anyway they went to kent state to keep peace as that was thier job. They shoot tear gass which was thrown back at them. The marched up a hil felling vonerable at the foot of the hill. Their had been romuors of a sniper attack planed by the "weather underground" | |
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nick Wanna Be |
#8 by nick at Oct 16, 2007 at 12:24 AM EST |
| PUNKED, it was more like 60 rounds in 12 seconds... not 18 shots as you stated. There was no shooting at the National Guard, as it was a peaceful protest. The whole incident sparked the need for effective crowd control methods, such as rubber bullets and other non-lethal ballistic weapons. When Neil wrote this song, it was done at a time when anyone speaking out against Nixon ended up in trouble, or dead (great example is the four students killed... and I say students because one was just walking to another class when she was shot.. she wasn't even protesting). | |
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isaac Average |
#9 by isaac fritsch at Oct 16, 2007 at 7:03 AM EST |
| I love this song, it's really sad since it's true but its beautifully written... I remember listening to this on my way to a sports camp at Kent state it was a lil weird | |
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More Cowbell Lead Player |
#10 by More Cowbell at Oct 18, 2007 at 1:11 AM EST |
| It's also ridiculously stupid and needless to attack men with guns and expect them not to do anything. It churns my stomach when I hear people give the victims a free pass on the situation when they brought it upon themselves. They certainly didn't deserve death, but the bottom line and UNDENIABLE fact is they did bring it upon themselves. | |
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Scott Average |
#11 by Scott Anderson at Oct 18, 2007 at 1:22 AM EST |
| This song is about the protests and demonstrations at Kent State University, the inability of the National Guard to control the situation, unfortunately the killing of 4 students, and nothing more. Neil was quoted "I'm upset with myself about commercializing this event and making money over the deaths of 4 students". | |
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jordan Average |
#12 by jordan roberts at Oct 18, 2007 at 5:33 AM EST |
| Duh. It's about Kent State. And no, it's actually not by CSNY, it's by Neil Young. | |
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