why, oh why, oh why, oh --
why did i ever leave Ohio?
why did i wander to find what lies yonder
when life was so cozy at home?
wondering while i wander,
why did i fly?
why did i roam?
oh, why oh, why oh
did i leave Ohio?
maybe I'd better go
home.
o -- h -- i -- o.
maybe I'd better go home.
now listen
Ohio was stifling.
we just couldn't wait to get out of the place,
with mom saying --, what no date for this evening?
and pop with, do be home, dear, by ten.
ugh!
the gossipy neighbors
and everyone yapping who's going with whom --
and dating those drips that I've known since I'm four.
the Kiwanis club dance.
on the basketball floor.
cousin Maude with her lectures on sin
what a bore!
Jerry black!
cousin min!
Ezra Nye!
hannah finn!
hopeless!
babbity!
stuffy!
provincial!
thank heavens we're free!
why, oh why, oh why, oh --
why did we ever leave Ohio?!
wondering while we wander,
why did we fly?
why did we roam?
oh, why oh, why oh
did we leave Ohio?
maybe we'd better go
home.
o -- h -- i -- o.