State Songs.

[Deja Vous]

When I live in AZ this song became the song for AZ. It made me feel so good to hear it.. AZ was my desert home, and when i left my family home AZ accepted me like I was one of them. My wild west spirit fit right in, and I ended up on more moutain horse back rides on the T ranch by New River than I could ever count. Carrying a gun on your hip, chaps or chinks on your body, and a hat on horse back fit me to a T.. I played wild west for decades, lol.. guess I will never grow up. Someday I may move back there, or maybe just visit often, and use the family cabin in Parker AZ to pay homage to a great state.. I love CA too, the people are the best.. Okay, fine the USA as a whole has been so much fun to travel around in.. I have to say I am so blessed as to be born here.. Okay. gotta go get some work done.. y'all have a good night.. and here is I love you AZ..

 

I love you, Arizona;

Your mountains, deserts and streams;

The rise of Dos Cabezas*

And the outlaws I see in my dreams;

 

I love you Arizona,

Superstitions and all;

The warmth you give at sunrise;

Your sunsets put music in us all.

 

Oo, Arizona; You're the magic in me;

Oo, Arizona, You're the life-blood of me;

 

I love you Arizona;

Desert dust on the wind;

The sage and cactus are blooming,

And the smell of the rain on your skin.

 

Oo, Arizona; You're the magic in me;

Oo, Arizona, You're the life-blood of me;

[Blackwater 53393]

I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

The Redneck National Anthum

[Rye Miles #13621]

Cleveland sucks, Cleveland sucks...........

 

 

Oh wait that's Cleveland Rocks, ( I know it's a city song not a state sorry )

[Alpo]

Wonder what we'd use for a state song if Foster had stayed with his original idea? "Way down upon the Pee Dee River", which is in North Carolina.

[DocWard]

Well, Ohio has "Beautiful Ohio" as our State Song. I suppose it is OK as far as state songs go. However, Ohio was the first state to have a State Rock Song, "Hang on Sloopy."

 

I particularly like the resolution that named it the Ohio State Rock Song:

 

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 16

WHEREAS, The members of the 116th General Assembly of Ohio wish to recognize the rock song "Hang On Sloopy" as the official rock song of the great State of Ohio; and

 

WHEREAS, In 1965, an Ohio-based rock group known as the McCoys reached the top of the national record charts with "Hang On Sloopy," composed by Bert Russell and Wes Farrell, and that same year, John Tagenhorst, then an arranger for the Ohio State University Marching Band, created the band's now-famous arrangement of "Sloopy," first performed at the Ohio State-Illinois football game on October 9, 1965; and

 

WHEREAS, Rock music has become an integral part of American culture, having attained a degree of acceptance no one would have thought possible twenty years ago; and

 

WHEREAS, Adoption of "Hang On Sloopy" as the official rock song of Ohio is in no way intended to supplant "Beautiful Ohio" as the official state song, but would serve as a companion piece to that old chestnut; and

 

WHEREAS, If fans of jazz, country-and-western, classical, Hawaiian and polka music think those styles also should be recognized by the state, then by golly, they can push their own resolution just like we're doing; and

 

WHEREAS, "Hang On Sloopy" is of particular relevance to members of the Baby Boom Generation, who were once dismissed as a bunch of long-haired, crazy kids, but who now are old enough and vote in sufficient numbers to be taken quite seriously; and

 

WHEREAS, Adoption of this resolution will not take too long, cost the state anything, or affect the quality of life in this state to any appreciable degree, and if we in the legislature just go ahead and pass the darn thing, we can get on with more important stuff; and

 

WHEREAS, Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town, and everybody, yeah, tries to put my Sloopy down; and

 

WHEREAS, Sloopy, I don't care what your daddy do, 'cause you know, Sloopy girl, I'm in love with you; therefore be it Resolved, That we, the members of the 116th General Assembly of Ohio, in adopting this Resolution, name "Hang On Sloopy" as the official rock song of the State of Ohio; and be it further Resolved, That the Legislative Clerk of the House of Representatives transmit duly authenticated copies of this Resolution to the news media of Ohio.

[rippin kid]

Take Me home Coutry Roads. Almost Heaven WV

[Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L]

Michigan's official state song:

 

http://www.50states....gs/michigan.htm

 

Cool...

 

 

GG ~

[GunClick Rick]

 

But i like this one,Randy grew up here in Visalia.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJjkEwGEkI

[Utah Bob #35998]

Most states have very lame official songs. And most people never heard of them.

[Tame Bill #30699 Life]

Kansas State Song - "Home on the Range"

 

 

Verse 1:

 

Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam,

Where the deer and the antelope play,

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,

And the skies are not cloudy all day.

 

Chorus:

 

Home, home on the range,

Where the deer and the antelope play,

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,

And the skies are not cloudy all day.

 

Verse 2:

 

Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free,

The breezes so balmy and light,

That I would not exchange my home on the range

For all the cities so bright.

 

Verse 3:

 

Oh, give me a land where the bright diamond sand

Flows leisurely down the stream;

Where the graceful white swan goes gliding along

Like a maid in a heavenly dream.

 

Verse 4:

 

The red man was pressed from this part of the West,

He's likly no more to return

To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever

Their flickering campfires burn.

 

Verse 5:

 

How often at night when the heavens are bright

With the light of the glittering stars,

Have I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed

If their glory exceeds that of ours.

 

Verse 6:

 

Oh, I love these wild flowers in this dear land of ours;

The curlew I love to hear scream;

And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks

That graze on the mountain-tops green.

 

Verse 7:

 

Then I would not exchange my home on the range,

Where the deer and the antelope play;

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

And the skies are not cloudy all day.

[Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795]

You gotta remember that a lot of them were written back around the turn of last century ( 1899-1900).

[Utah Bob #35998]

You gotta remember that a lot of them were written back around the turn of last century ( 1899-1900).

 

And the some that weren't are even worse.

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COLORADO'S

(Second stanza is amazingly depressing.) :rolleyes

 

Where the Columbines Grow

Written & Music by A.J. Fynn 1915

 

Where the snowy peaks gleam in the moonlight,

above the dark forests of pine,

And the wild foaming waters dash onward,

toward lands where the tropic stars shine;

Where the scream of the bold mountain eagle,

responds to the notes of the dove

Is the purple robed West, the land that is best,

the pioneer land that we love.

 

chorus

 

The bison is gone from the upland,

the deer from the canyon has fled,

The home of the wolf is deserted,

the antelope moans for his dead,

The war whoop re-echoes no longer,

the Indian's only a name,

And the nymphs of the grove in their loneliness rove,

but the columbine blooms just the same.

 

chorus

 

Let the violet brighten the brookside,

in sunlight of earlier spring,

Let the fair clover bedeck the green meadow,

in days when the orioles sing,

Let the golden rod herald the autumn,

but, under the midsummer sky,

In its fair Western home, may the columbine bloom

till our great mountain rivers run dry.

 

chorus

 

Tis the land where the columbines grow,

Overlooking the plains far below,

While the cool summer breeze in the evergreen trees

Softly sings where the columbines grow.

[Oklahomabound]

Indian Territory's:

 

Oklahoma

Written by Oscar Hammerstein II

Music by Richard Rodgers

 

Brand new state! Brand new state, gonna treat you great!

Gonna give you barley, carrots and pertaters,

Pasture fer the cattle, Spinach and Temayters!

Flowers on the prarie where the June bugs zoom,

Plen'y of air and plen'y of room,

Plen'y of room to swing a rope!

Plen'y of heart and plen'y of hope.

 

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain,

And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet

When the wind comes right behind the rain.

Oklahoma, ev'ry night my honey lamb and I

Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk makin' lazy circles in the sky.

We know we belong to the land

And the land we belong to is grand!

And when we say--Yeeow! A-yip-i-o-ee ay!

We're only sayin' You're doin' fine, Oklahoma! Oklahoma--O.K.

 

http://lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/video/video/show?id=688012%3AVideo%3A14980

[Yukon Charley, SASS Life #14739]

"Texas, Our Texas." SALUTE!!!!!

[Rev Willy Dunkum, SASS # 61027]

Illinois' is one of those lame ones...in my opinion of course.

[Grizzly Dave]

UB beat me to it, and yes indeed the second stanza is very depressing.

[Apache Hawk 60642]

"Texas, Our Texas." SALUTE!!!!!

 

 

 

Or "The Yellow Rose of TEXAS !!" :wub:

[Dog Ears Wilson, SASS #77948]

California's state song is terrible, so I took a few minutes (very few) to write a new one. It's sung to the tune of Green Acres.

 

California is the place for me

I love my home beside the sea

Land spreadin' out so far and wide

Others malign us but I claim you with pride

 

From San Diego's sheltered bay

To San Francisco flaming gay

To the Orygun line

Where rivers intertwine

 

...The Niners

...The whiners

...The oranges

...(OK, this line's givin' me a bit of trouble)

 

You are my state

Though liberals dictate

California we are there!

[GunClick Rick]

California's revised state Song