My City Was Gone

I went back to Ohio

But my city was gone

There was no train station

There was no downtownSouthtown, it disappeared

All my favorite places

My city had been pulled down

Reduced to parking spaces

Ay, oh, where did you go, Ohio?I went back to Ohio

But my family was gone

I stood on the back porch

There was nobody homeI was stunned and amazed

My childhood memories

Saw this world past

Like the wind through the trees

Ay, oh, where did you go, Ohio?I went back to Ohio

But my pretty countryside

It had been paved down the middle

By a government that had no prideThe farms of Ohio

Had been replaced by shopping malls

And Muzak filled the air

From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls

Ay, oh, where did you go, Ohio?