Eileen: Oh Ruth
Ruth: Now Eileen, everything's going to be alright
Eileen: It's awful
Ruth: Never mind, Eileen. Try and sleep
Eileen: ,,,can't sleep
Ruth: Try, darling. Make your mind a blank
Eileen: I did, but I keep thinking of Ohio
Ruth: Oh Eileen, me too
Both: 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?
Wond’ring 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.
Ruth: Now listen, Eileen,
Ohio was stifling.
We just couldn’t wait to get out of the place,
With mom saying -- ‘Ruth, what, no date for this evening’
Eileen: And pop with, ‘Eileen, do be home, dear, by ten.’
Both: Ugh!
Ruth: Those gossipy neighbors
And everyone yapping who’s going with whom
Eileen: And dating those drips that I’ve known since I’m four.
Ruth: The kiwanis club dance.
Eileen: On the basketball floor.
Ruth: Cousin maude with her lectures on sin
Both: What a bore!
Eileen: Jerry black!
Ruth: Cousin min!
Eileen: Ezra nye!
Ruth: Hannah finn!
Eileen: Just hopeless!
Ruth: Babbity!
Eileen: Stuffy!
Ruth: Provincial!
Both: Thank heavens we’re free!
Why, oh why, oh why, oh --
Why did we ever leave Ohio!
Wond’ring 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.
Maybe we’d better go home.