Look at Miss Ohio

The lyric is a portrait of a restless young woman caught between expectation and her own desires — running off, putting off the day she will finally settle and do what is expected of her, a feeling summed up in the much-quoted line about wanting to do right, but not right now. That blend of wry humor and real ache is characteristic of Welch’s writing.

Set in the spare, haunting style Welch and Rawlings made their own — two voices, a little guitar, and a great deal of space — the song became one of their best-known and most-covered, a modern standard of the Americana repertoire.