Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Ohio.
But it sounds funny; the cadence is off and it almost sounds like an opera. I have no idea if I’m making this up, or if it exists in some cover version somewhere.
I realise I have a story about this song. Earlier this year, I took a free course on job hunting and CV skills. Not that I needed it, but it was something to do and being as who you know is important here, why not. Anyhoo, the instructor was a lovely Scottish lady in her mid-50’s. While going over the ‘education’ section of my CV, she asked about the university I had attended (for a year, until the money ran out). I attended Kent State. But, as I pointed out, “Not the famous campus of Kent State, it was a satellite branch in another county.”
I got a blank look.
“You know, Kent State? The Kent State shootings? Where the national guard shot protesting students to death in 1970?”
Blank look.
“The famous picture of the woman screaming over a body?” I probably even posed like the photo.
Blank look.
“The Kent State shootings are what that song is about, you know, the Neil Young one, ‘four dead in Ohio’.”
Well, she’d never heard the song, and didn’t know about one of the most shocking moments in recent American history.
I decided to take it as a culture thing. That it was understandable that a Scottish woman didn’t know about Kent because let’s face it, Scotland in the 70’s had troubles enough of its own. I liked her, and didn’t want to think she was ignorant. But I think I’m still surprised and a bit annoyed.
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Being that I don’t know of anything that happened in Scotland in the 70’s I wouln’t expect the reverse.
Some more recent rock song — I have no idea who or what, since they’re all hard to understand and I only hear that genre at the gym — with a single female vocalist uses a melody line so exactly matching this song that I want to jump through the radio and choke her for irreverence.
Because though, as I say, I don’t follow rock music, I was finishing high school in 1971 and Kent State was the sobering notice that, at least at that time, I lived in a country where people were willing to shoot at the young for protesting the idea of being sent out to get shot at. People can pick it apart any way they want but it keeps coming back to that.
Today college students are rioting in Pennsylvania because the college sacked the football coach for protecting a buddy who liked to rape ten-year-olds. And people called ours a self-centered generation.
I’m disgusted with the modern trend in music to auto-tune everything. Everyone sounds the same now. Sled, you would HATE living in my house with the constant barrage of music I hear!
I don’t understand the whole PA deal, there are real problems in the world and they riot over a football coach? What are they being taught in that school…