This is a list of songs written about the U.S. state of Ohio:
| Title | Artist/composer | Album | nowrap=yes | Date ! | class=unsortable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Back Home" | 15 Big Ones/Made in California | 1976 | ||||
| "Beautiful Ohio" | 1918 | Made the official state song of Ohio in 1969. | ||||
| "Big Butter Jesus" | We Just Landed! | 2007 | Refers to the King of Kings statue near Monroe, Ohio, which was destroyed by a lightning strike on June 14, 2010. | |||
| "Bloodbuzz Ohio" | High Violet | 2010 | ||||
| "Boy in Ohio" | Greatest Hits | 1970 | ||||
| "Burn On" | Sail Away | 1971 | ||||
| "Carmen Ohio" | Fred Cornell | 1903 | The oldest school song still in use by Ohio State University. | |||
| "Carry Me Ohio" | Ghosts of the Great Highway | 2003 | The song's narrative is partly based on frontman Mark Kozelek's boyhood in Ohio.[1] | |||
| "Cleveland Rocks" | You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic | 1979 | A cover version was used as the theme song for The Drew Carey Show in the 1990s.[2] | |||
| "Cuyahoga" | Life's Rich Pageant | 1986 | About the once-heavily polluted Cuyahoga River; the lyrics reference when it caught fire in 1969, which became a watershed incident in the environmental movement.[3] | |||
| "Dayton Ohio, 1903" | Sail Away | 1971 | ||||
| "Dreamy Bruises" | 2014 | |||||
| "Escape from Ohio" | Kill | 2009 | ||||
| "Four Days" | This Desert Life | 1999 | ||||
| 1976 | ||||||
| "Going to Cleveland" | Transmissions to Horace | 1993 | ||||
| "In Ohio" | 2004 | |||||
| "In Ohio on Some Steps" | Hi, Everything's Great. | 2003 | ||||
| "Lisbon, OH" | Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 2011 | ||||
| "Look At Miss Ohio" | Soul Journey | 2003 | ||||
| "Look Out Cleveland" | 1970 | |||||
| "Mrs. Hippopotamus" | Air For Free | 2016 | ||||
| "My City Was Gone" | single | 1982 | The song is an autobiographical lament about the singer returning to her childhood home in Ohio and discovering that rampant development and pollution had destroyed the "pretty countryside" of her youth; the lyrics make specific references to places in and around Akron, Ohio, the hometown of lead singer and writer Chrissie Hynde. | |||
| "My Ohio Home" | Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson | 1927 | ||||
| "O-HI-O (O-My-O)" | 1920 | |||||
| "Ohio" | , et al. | 1953 | From the Broadway musical Wonderful Town, about two sisters who move to New York City from Columbus, Ohio; in the song, they lament leaving. | |||
| "Ohio" | nowrap=yes | single | 1970 | Written by Neil Young in reaction to the 1970 Kent State Shootings, after he saw the photos of the incident in Life Magazine.[4] Charted at #14 on Billboard Hot 100. | ||
| "Ohio" | 1983 | Song in French by actress Isabelle Adjani, written by Serge Gainsbourg. | ||||
| "Ohio" | 1996 | |||||
| "Ohio" | Born on the first of July | 1998 | ||||
| "Ohio" | 2019 | |||||
| "Ohio" | 1999 | |||||
| "Ohio" | Ohio | 2003 | ||||
| "Ohio" | Brothers (bonus track) | 2011 | ||||
| "Ohio" | Audio, Video, Disco | 2011 | ||||
| "Ohio" | Microscopic Wars | 2013 | ||||
| "Ohio" | Caamp | 2016 | ||||
| "Ohio" | 2018 | The single was not written for an album; it was released digitally in May 2018.[5] | ||||
| nowrap=yes | "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)" | nowrap=yes | A Hangover You Don't Deserve | 2005 | ||
| nowrap=yes | "Ohio Is for Lovers" | nowrap=yes | The Silence in Black and White | 2004 | ||
| "Ohioisonfire" | nowrap=yes | The Flood | 2011 | |||
| "Road Outside Columbus" | In Between Now and Then | 2003 | ||||
| "Somewhere In Ohio" | Smile | 2000 | ||||
| "Youngstown" | nowrap=yes | The Ghost of Tom Joad | 1995 | The song tells the tale of the rise and fall of Youngstown, Ohio, over several generations, from the discovery of iron ore nearby in 1803 through the decline of the steel industry in the area in the 1970s.[6] |