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- From: ypay@leland.Stanford.EDU (daniel cory)
- Subject: Re: Songs containing states
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.190242.8826@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Nov13.211056.9143@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 19:02:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.211056.9143@news.media.mit.edu> paul@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Paul Dworkin) writes:
- >Could people send me ideas for various states?
-
- Why hasn't anybody suggested state songs? Virtually every state will have an
- official state song and it will almost always have the name of the state in it.
- North Carolina's is called 'The Old North State' so maybe it doesn't count but
- I'm pretty sure the phrase "North Carolina" is in the song.
-
- Just from titles of state songs (as given by 'The Universal Almanac' 1990
- edition, ed. John W. Wright)
-
- Alabama: "Alabama"
- Alaska: "Alaska's Flag"
- Arizona: "Arizona March Song", "Arizona"
- Arkansas: "Arkansas"
- California: "I Love You, California"
- Colorado: "Where the Columbines Grow"
- Connecticut: "Yankee Doodle"
- Delaware: "Our Delaware"
- DC: no song listed
- Florida: "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River")
- Georgia: "Georgia", "Georgia on My Mind"
- Hawaii: "Hawaii Ponoi"
- Idaho: "Here We Have Idaho"
- Illinois: "Illinois"
- Indiana: "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Way"
- Iowa: "The Song of Iowa"
- Kansas: "Home on the Range" (the state march is "The Kansas March")
- Kentucky: "My Old Kentucky Home"
- Louisiana: "Give Me Louisiana", "You Are My Sunshine"
- Maine: "State of Maine Song"
- Maryland: "Maryland, My Maryland"
- Massachusetts: "All Hail to Massachusetts" (state folk song is "Massachusetts")
- Michigan: "Michigan, My Michigan"
- Minnesota: "Hail, Minnesota!"
- Mississippi: "Go, Mississippi"
- Missouri: "Missouri Waltz"
- Montana: "Montana" (state ballad is "Montana Melody")
- Nebraska: "Beautiful Nebraska"
- Nevada: "Home Means Nevada"
- New Hampshire: "Old New Hampshire"
- New Jersey: no song listed
- New Mexico: "O, Fair New Mexico", "Asi es Nuevo Mejico"
- New York: "I Love New York"
- North Carolina: "The Old North State"
- North Dakota: "North Dakota Hymn" (state march is "Spirit of North Dakota")
- Ohio: "Beautiful Ohio"
- Oklahoma: "Oklahoma!" (state waltz is "Oklahoma Wind")
- Oregon: "Oregon, My Oregon"
- Pennsylvania: "Pennsylvania"
- Rhode Island: "Rhode Island"
- South Carolina: "Carolina"
- South Dakota: "Hail, South Dakota"
- Tennessee: "When It's Iris Time in Tennessee", "The Tennessee Waltz", "My
- Homeland, Tennessee", "Rocky Top"
- Texas: "Texas, Our Texas", "The Eyes of Texas"
- Utah: "Utah, We Love Thee"
- Vermont: "Hail, Vermont!"
- Virginia: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia"
- Washington: "Washington, My Home"
- West Virginia: "The West Virginia Hills", "West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home",
- "This Is My West Virginia"
- Wisconsin: "Oh, Wisconsin!"
- Wyoming: "Wyoming"
-
- So, just from the titles of state songs (and folks songs and marches), we cover
- all the states except Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida,
- Indiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina. However, if we had the
- text of the songs, I bet we could knock off a few more.
-
- Dan Cory
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- Dan Cory
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