Boy In Ohio - Phil Ochs

Creek was running by the road

And the Buckeye sun was a-shinin'

I rode my bike down Alum Creek Drive

When I was a boy in Ohio

The English teacher he didn’t care

He challenged us to checkers

And once in a while we’d swap a joke

When I was a boy in Ohio

Once I was caught playing hooky from school

They found me home in the evening

I confessed I had been to the movie show

When I was a boy in Ohio

We would wait for the summer to come

For swimmin' and pickin' berries

But now a freeway covers the field

Where I used to be so happy

I remember the Burger Boy

Where the girls would shine like the engines

And the radio was always loud

When I was a boy in Ohio

Spanish teacher she tried to help

She was much too pretty

So I just stared at the back of her legs

When I was a boy in Ohio

It was 3.2 beer* at the honky tonk bar

Where they said the girls were easy

But somehow I never found me one

When I was a boy in Ohio

Soon I was grown and I had to leave

And I’ve been all over the country

But I don’t believe I’ve had more fun

Than when I was a boy in Ohio