Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’

/ Tracy Abell

Journalist Ken Klippenstein just reported that the White House has laid the groundwork for utilizing the Insurrection Act  by labeling the Los Angeles anti-ICE protests an  insurrection, and that Trump’s “border czar” just told Fox News, “We’re gonna bring National Guard in tonight.”

Read Klippenstein’s full article Breaking: National Guard to Put Down LA Protests. And when you’re done, here are the lyrics to Ohio, the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song about the National Guard murdering Kent State students on May 4, 1970. Their crime? Protesting the Vietnam War.

 

Ohio

Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin’
Four dead in OhioGotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na, na-na-naGotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin’
Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio (four dead)
Four dead in Ohio (four)
Four dead in Ohio (how many?)
Four dead in Ohio (how many more?)

Four dead in Ohio (why?)
Four dead in Ohio (oh)
Four dead in Ohio (four)
Four dead in Ohio (why?)

Four dead in Ohio (why?)
Four dead in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio

4 thoughts on “Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’”

  1. Thanks for sharing this, Tracy. You know I used to love that song but being young and naive, never thought much about the meaning. At least now I know. I now think of Bob Dylan’s song, A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.

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    • It’s a very compelling song, Mara, and easy to get caught up in the power of the music so understandable you didn’t pay attention to the lyrics. “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” is another powerful song, for sure. Both written so long ago and here we are making the same inhumane mistakes.

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