What are your home state songs? Here's mine.
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Dr.Colosso
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jujube
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My native state is Indiana, so that would be "Back Home Again in Indiana".
I lived for a while in Virginia. The "new" state song (10 years) is "Our Great Virginia". The old one was "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia", which didn't please everyone.
Michigan, where I lived for some years, has two songs: "My Michigan" which is technically the official state song but is almost never played and "Michigan, my Michigan", which is the one that most people consider the state song.
My current state (Florida) for almost the last 50 years is "Swanee River (Old Folks at Home)" by Stephen Foster. Now, it's really the Suwannee River, but that extra syllable didn't fit well into the song. Strangely enough, Foster never saw the Suwannee River but he liked the sound of it. Also, there were some lyrics that aren't exactly PC by today's standards, so there have been some "adjusting" there.
I lived for a while in Virginia. The "new" state song (10 years) is "Our Great Virginia". The old one was "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia", which didn't please everyone.
Michigan, where I lived for some years, has two songs: "My Michigan" which is technically the official state song but is almost never played and "Michigan, my Michigan", which is the one that most people consider the state song.
My current state (Florida) for almost the last 50 years is "Swanee River (Old Folks at Home)" by Stephen Foster. Now, it's really the Suwannee River, but that extra syllable didn't fit well into the song. Strangely enough, Foster never saw the Suwannee River but he liked the sound of it. Also, there were some lyrics that aren't exactly PC by today's standards, so there have been some "adjusting" there.
CallMeKate
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I love that song. My husband was from West Virginia. One of the prettiest states I've been in. (that and North Carolina)
Paco Dennis
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Murrmurr
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I think it's this one:
It's actually this one but yours would be better , I grew up there and never heard it only our National songs
State Song of California - I Love You, California
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Wombat
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We don't have a state song but in the silliness stakes apparently we do have a song for the State of Origin footie, when the Blues play Queensland.
Wombat
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I suppose there is always this one
Pretty melody. I've never heard that one.
That's a lively song.
WheatenLover
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- Georgia
Great song and great rendition by Ray Charles
Naturally
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... have they got one for Alabama?
General Provisions:
Section 1-2-16 State Song.
The poem “Alabama,” a gift to the people of the state from Julia S. Tutwiler, together with the original music written for such poem by Edna Gockel-Gussen, which music has been approved and adopted by the Alabama Federation of Music Clubs, is hereby adopted as the state song of Alabama.