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Devo and 'Whip It'

Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 16 December 2003

WHAT WOULD YOU DO if the National Guard came to your school and shot your friends? That's the question Neil Young posed in his song 'Ohio', written in the aftermath of the horrific Kent State University shootings on May 4, 1970.

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