Ohio▪Across an ocean I have never seen

▪My love waits for me

▪Her eyes are red her heart is torn

▪From her journey over the sea

▪Born to an Irish no account

▪Out in mid Western land

▪By rail and ship to Ireland

▪For loving a Protestant man

Ohio▪There are no waves in Ohio

▪There are no ships to sail

▪But I’ll be coming there for you

▪My love, my love

▪I pledged to you with all my heart

▪In the meadow on the hill

▪And kissed you on the day we parted

▪The words you spoke are truer still

Ohio▪My father wants to marry me

▪To one he has arranged

▪But I’ll sleep beneath the water deep

▪If I cannot bear your name

▪There are no waves in Ohio

▪There are no ships to sail

▪But I’ll be coming there for you

▪My love, my love

Ohio▪I sold my tools I sold my land

▪My father’s watch is all I have

▪And booked my passage straight away

▪My mother’s ring inside my hand

▪I’ll bid farewell to all I’ve known

▪And in the early light

▪By rail and ship to Ireland

▪To claim you for my bride

Ohio▪There are no waves in Ohio

▪There are no ships to sail

▪But I’ll coming there for you

▪My love, my love

▪Arrived in Dublin in the morning

▪I met a girl I did not know

▪She said you loved me more than all the world

▪And sorry to tell this sad news so

Ohio▪Late one night out on the deck

▪The wind did howl and bay

▪You dared the sea to swallow you

▪And take your pain away

▪There are no waves in Ohio

▪There are no ships to sail

▪But I’ll be coming there for you

▪My love, my love

Ohio▪I’ll throw rose petals overboard▪On the ocean of my dreams▪Where you’ll be waiting there for me▪My love, my love

▪My love

▪Diana Jones▪Museum of Appalachian recordings ▪Proper 2013