List of songs about Ohio


This is a list of songs written about the U.S. state of Ohio:
TitleArtist/composerAlbumDateDescription
"Back Home"The Beach Boys15 Big Ones/''Made in California1976
"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"High Violet2010
"Boy in Ohio"Greatest Hits1970
"Burn On"Sail Away1971
"Carmen Ohio"CornellFred Cornell1903The oldest school song still in use by 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.
"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.
"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.
"Dayton Ohio, 1903"Sail Away1971
"Dreamy Bruises"Sylvan EssoSylvan Esso2014-
"Escape from Ohio"Electric SixKill2009
"Four Days"Counting CrowsThis Desert Life1999
OutlawsLady in Waiting1976
"Going to Cleveland"Transmissions to Horace1993
"In Ohio"Our Shadows Will Remain2004
"In Ohio on Some Steps"LimbeckHi, Everything's Great.2003
"Lisbon, OH"Bon IverBon Iver, Bon Iver2011
"Look At Miss Ohio"Soul Journey2003
"Look Out Cleveland"1970
"Mrs. Hippopotamus"Relient KAir For Free-
"My City Was Gone"single1982The 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.
"My Ohio Home"Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson1927-
"Nowhere, Ohio"Can't SwimThanks but No Thanks2023-
"O-HI-O "1920-
"Ohio", 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. Charted at #14 on Billboard Hot 100.
"Ohio"Pull 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"Chixdiggit!Born on the first of July1998
"Ohio"Cherry GlazerrStuffed & Ready2019
"Ohio"Rehearsals for Departure1999
"Ohio"Over the RhineOhio2003
"Ohio"Brothers 2011
"Ohio"Justice (band)Audio, Video, Disco 2011
"Ohio"KingswoodMicroscopic Wars2013
"Ohio"CaampCaamp2016
"Ohio"Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness2018The single was not written for an album; it was released digitally in May 2018.
"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 Then2003
"Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio"John DenverAn Evening with John Denver1975
"Somewhere In Ohio"The JayhawksSmile2000
"Youngstown"Ghost of Tom JoadThe Ghost of Tom Joad''1995The 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.