"Ohio Son" genre: Pop
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	Written on the eve of war with Saddam Hussein and inspired by radio interviews with parents of U.S. soldiers
	CD: Railroad Blessing   Label: Spiral Records Credits: Sam Payne--Piano and Vocals
	Story Behind the Song A war song, inspired by the radio broadcast of the Town Hall Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, in 1998, at which the government presented its plans for war against Sadam Hussein to a waiting nation. parents of Ohio soldiers stood up and awkwardly expressed their patriotism, that sounded more like impassioned pleas that the nation treat carefully the young lives that had been entrusted to it. Lyrics There's a green stretch of field tucked away in the heart of this land There's a boy there who loves a bright lady as deep as he can And she lets him walk long in her valleys And she lets him ride high on her wing In the face of the storm, in her hand he's as warm as anything I was there on the morning he fell through the gate from above I waited up late on the night when he first fell in love And I taught him to treasure the water And I taught him to furrow the land And I watched the foe yield on a far different field While his mother she cried to the sound of the band And so long, send in my Ohio boy Stand him wide-eyed and trembling Between you and the dark But won't you hang your eyes low As you watch that boy go I don't know what you want him to be But bring my Ohio son home to me Now we're pulling the canvas on up over late winter hay And his blue eyes are on the horizon for a flicker of grey 'Cause there's a thunderhead high in the desert There's a clock ticking low on the wall And the gutters are clean here inside the machine Send a dancer to go get that hard rain to fall And so long, send in my Ohio boy Stand him wide-eyed and trembling Between you and the dark But won't you hang your eyes low As you watch that boy go I don't know what you want him to be But bring my Ohio son home to me

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