OHIO
- Neil Young
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In a context of ideological cut of the USA, two camps are opposed, the one stands as defendant of the ideologies and the conservation of a world with the USA in the head and other one of the activists against the Vietnam war atrocities.
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Ohio song calls of the fourth of May 1970, when a peacefull march of a students group at Kent State University in Ohio went wrong, four students dead, one paralyzed, and eight others wounded by Ohio national guardsmen under the command of the USA president, Nixon. It is the begining of a protestation wave for freedom and a peace, against the governement who choices priority to chase communist system in South East Asian.
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After having scrutinized this new Neil Young already considered as a committed artist begins the writing of a song on this drama which divided America.
Lyrics
:
Tin
soldiers and Nixon coming,
Nixon
et ses soldats de plomb arrivent
We're
finally on our own.
Nous
avons enfin notre liberté
de pensée
This
summer I hear the drumming,
Cet
été
j'entends les tambours
Four
dead in Ohio.
Quatre
morts dans l'Ohio
Gotta
get down to it
Je
dois y aller
Soldiers
are cutting us down
Les
soldats nous abattent
Should
have been done long ago.
Ça
aurait déjà
dû
arriver il y a longtemps
What
if you knew her
Imaginez
que vous la connaissiez
And
found her dead on the ground
Et
que vous voyez son corps par terre
How
can you run when you know ?
Comment
pouvez-vous courir en sachant ce qui se passe ?
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Young shows the moral mobilization of troops "tin soldiers" by the state, "Nixon" which act only under the head orders, not by human values such as freedom of opinion (sentence two) or expression (who can't talk they are robot not human). The only quotation of the president's name was a big position against the one who had occupied the White House .
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The mention of "we" tells us all the world is falling by order of USA and the war which corrupts humans.
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The author want to mobilize the American to protest against the wrongful death of 4 young people who wish explain their displeasure , through the use of «I»
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He denounces also the choice of a part of the population to ignore this situation in the 3 last lines
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