Ohio Tab

by Neil Young
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Tuning: D A D G B E
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Notes :
Political activism in the rock world was already at a peak in 1970 when president Richard
Nixon ordered the Ohio National Guard to Kent State University to confront Vietnam War
student protestors. Young wrote this huge hit and poignant anti-war rallying cry after
learning the outcome of the tragic event.
 
This acoustic version is taken off the Solo Trans video. It uses the "Dropped D" tuning,
though you can play it in the standard tuning. (That's what I always do with this song).
Anyway, I made  some corrections in the intro. I tabbed also an alternative intro that
sounds very good on an acoustic guitar. It's just a kind of progression on the normal
intro. For the normal intro, see the verse. In the second and fourth line of the
chorus you can replace the Gm7(II) and C8th just by playing the same chords as the first
and the third line if you think the special chords are too difficult.
 
 
CHORDS used in this song:
 
        DADGBD                      DADGBD
 
D5      000320          Gm7 (II)    550030
Gm7 (I) 353363
Fmaj7   x03210          D10th       12 10 10 00 xx xx
C       x32010          C8th        10 xx 10 00 08 xx
 
 
[Intro]
 
    D5          F    C          D5             F     C
D|---------------------------|-----------------------------|
B|-----3------3--------------|-------3------3--------------|
G|-----0h2--2---0----0----0--|-------0h2--2----0-----0-----|
D|-----------------3---------|--------------------3--------|
A|-----------------------3---|--------------------------3--|
D|--0------------------------|--0--------------------------|
 
 
[Verse]
 
    D5               F      C              D5               F         C
D|--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
B|-------3------3----3------------------|-------3------3----3----------------|
G|-------0h2----2----0------0--------0--|-------0h2----2----0---------0------|
D|--0------------------3----------------|--0---------------------3-----------|
A|------------------------------3-------|---------------------------------3--|
D|--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 
    Tin soldiers and   Nixon coming,        We're finally   on our    -   own
    This Summer I hear the drumming,        Four  dead in   -    O -  hi - o
 
 
[Chorus]
 
Gm7(I)                 C
  Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down
Gm7(II)                        C8th
  Should have been done long ago
Gm7(I)                     C
  What if you knew her and, found her dead on the ground
Gm7(II)                    C8th
  How can you run when you know?
D10th
 
(Play Intro)
 
 
[Verse]
 
La la la la, la la, la la
La la la la, la la, la
La la la la, la la, la la
La la la la, la la, la
 
D10th or rather D5
 
[Chorus]
 
Repeat VERSE 1
 
Repeat last line a few times
 
You can finish the by replacing the last note of the main riff by playing a C strum:
 
    D5         F     C         D5       F     C
D|---------------------------|----------------------0---|
B|-----3----3--3-------------|-----3----3--3--------1---|
G|-----0h2--2--0-----0----0--|-----0h2--2--0-----0--0---|
D|----------------3----------|----------------3-----2---|
A|---------------------3-----|----------------------3---|
D|--0------------------------|--0-------------------0---|
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voodoonirvana
what the hell is c8th?
+9
trikerider2oo7
dropped d tuning is DADGBE. what you are showing is actually called double dropped d (DADGBD). just wanted to clear that up
+8
WCS_Is_Worse1
no comments on this this is most excellent and richard nixon was the worst president ever worse then bush
+6