List of U.S. state songs

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"State song" redirects here. For the album by John Linnell, see State Songs. For the topic songs of nation-states, see national anthem. For the songs of nation-states, see list of national anthems and list of anthems of non-sovereign countries, regions and territories.

Forty-nine of the fifty U.S. states that make up the United States of America have one or more state songs, which are selected by each state legislature, and/or state governor, as a symbol (or emblem) of that particular U.S. state. New Jersey does not have an official state song, while Virginia's previous state song, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", adopted in 1940,[1] was rescinded due to its racist language by the Virginia General Assembly.[2] In 2015, "Our Great Virginia" was made the new state song of Virginia.[3]

Some U.S. states have more than one official state song, and may refer to some of their official songs by other names; for example, Arkansas officially has two state songs, plus a state anthem, and a state historical song. Arizona has a song that was written specifically as a state anthem in 1915, as well as the 1981 country hit "Arizona", which it adopted as the alternate state anthem in 1982.[1]

Two individuals, Stephen Foster, and John Denver, have written or co-written two state songs. Foster's two state songs, "Old Folks at Home" (better known as "Swanee Ribber" or "Suwannee River") (for adopted by Florida), and "My Old Kentucky Home" are among the best-known songs in the U.S. On March 12, 2007, the Colorado Senate passed a resolution to make Denver's trademark 1972 hit "Rocky Mountain High" one of the state's two official state songs, sharing duties with its predecessor, "Where the Columbines Grow".[4] On March 7, 2014, the West Virginia Legislature approved a resolution to make Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" the official state song of West Virginia. Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed the resolution into law on March 8, 2014.[5] Other well-known state songs include "Yankee Doodle", "You Are My Sunshine", "Rocky Top", and "Home on the Range"; a number of others are popular standards, including "Oklahoma!" (from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical), Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia on My Mind", "Tennessee Waltz", "Missouri Waltz", and "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away". Many of the others are much less well-known, especially outside the state.

State songs

State State song Composer(s) Lyricist(s) Year adopted
Alabama
Flag of Alabama.svg		 "Alabama" Mrs. Edna Gockel Gussen Julia Strudwick Tutwiler 1931[1][6]
Alaska
Flag of Alaska.svg		 "Alaska's Flag" Elinor Dusenbury Marie Drake 1955[1][7]
Arizona
Flag of Arizona.svg		 State song: "Arizona" Rex Allen and Rex Allen, Jr. Rex Allen and Rex Allen, Jr. 1981[1][8]
State anthem: "Arizona March Song" Maurice Blumenthal Margaret Rowe Clifford 1919[1][8]
Arkansas
Flag of Arkansas.svg		 State anthem: "Arkansas" Eva Ware Barnett Eva Ware Barnett 1917/1987[1][9]
"Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me)" Wayland Holyfield Wayland Holyfield 1987[1][9]
"Oh, Arkansas" Terry Rose and Gary Klaff Terry Rose and Gary Klaff 1987[1][9]
State historical song: "The Arkansas Traveler" Sanford Faulkner (Official lyrics by committee, 1947) 1949/1987[1][9]
California
Flag of California.svg		 "I Love You, California" Alfred F. Frankenstein F. B. Silverwood 1951[1]
Colorado
Flag of Colorado.svg		 "Where the Columbines Grow" A.J. Fynn 1915[1][10]
"Rocky Mountain High" John Denver and Mike Taylor John Denver 2007[11]
Connecticut
Flag of Connecticut.svg		 State song: "Yankee Doodle" 1978[1][12]
State cantata: "The Nutmeg" 2003[1][12]
Delaware
Flag of Delaware.svg		 "Our Delaware" 1925[1]
Florida
Flag of Florida.svg		 Official song: Revised lyrics of "Old Folks at Home (Swanee Ribber)" Adopted by the Stephen Foster Memorial at the University of Pittsburgh from the original by Stephen Foster 2008 (revised lyrics)[13]
1935 (original lyrics)[1]
Official song: "I Am Florida" Walter "Clyde" Orange Allen Autry Sr. 2013[14][15]
State anthem: "Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky)"
 Jan Hinton 2008[16]
Georgia
Flag of Georgia (U.S. state).svg		 "Georgia on My Mind", sung by Ray Charles Hoagy Carmichael Stuart Gorrell 1979[1]
Hawaii
Flag of Hawaii.svg		 State anthem: "Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī" Henri Berger King David Kalākaua 1967[1][17]
Idaho
Flag of Idaho.svg		 "Here We Have Idaho" Sallie Hume Douglas 1931[1]
Illinois
Flag of Illinois.svg		 "Illinois" 1967[1]
Indiana
Flag of Indiana.svg		 "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" Paul Dresser 1913[1]
Iowa
Flag of Iowa.svg		 "The Song of Iowa" S.H.M. Byers 1911[1]
Official Companion State Song: "Make Me a World in Iowa" Effie Burt 2002[1][18]
Kansas
Flag of Kansas.svg		 "Home on the Range" 1947[1]
Official state march: "The Kansas March" 1935[1]
Official march: "Here's Kansas" 1992[1]
Kentucky
Flag of Kentucky.svg		 State song: "My Old Kentucky Home" Stephen Foster 1928[1]
Bluegrass song: "Blue Moon of Kentucky" Bill Monroe 1988[1][19]
"Kentucky Home Made Christmas"
Louisiana
Flag of Louisiana.svg		 "Give Me Louisiana" Doralice Fontane[20] 1970[1]
"You Are My Sunshine" Jimmie Davis
(former governor)		 1977[1]
State march: "Louisiana My Home Sweet Home" 1952[1]
Environmental song: "The Gifts of Earth"[21]
Maine
Flag of Maine.svg		 "State of Maine Song" Roger Vinton Snow 1937[1]
Maryland
Flag of Maryland.svg		 "Maryland, My Maryland"
(to the tune of "O Tannenbaum")		 James Ryder Randall 1939[1][22]
Massachusetts
Flag of Massachusetts.svg		 State anthem: "All Hail to Massachusetts" Arthur J. Marsh 1981[1][23]
State folk song: "Massachusetts" Arlo Guthrie 1981[1][24]
State ceremonial march: "The Road to Boston" 1985[1][25]
State patriotic song: "Massachusetts (Because of You Our Land is Free)" 1989[1][26]
State glee club song: "The Great State of Massachusetts" 1997[1][27]
State polka: "Say Hello to Someone from Massachusetts" Lenny Gomulka[28] 1998[29]
State ode: "Ode to Massachusetts" 2000[1][30]
Michigan
Flag of Michigan.svg		 An official state song: "My Michigan" H. O'Reilly Clint Giles Kavanaugh 1937[1]
Minnesota
Flag of Minnesota.svg		 "Hail! Minnesota" 1945[1]
Mississippi
Flag of Mississippi.svg		 "Go, Mississippi"
(sometimes called Go Mis-sis-sip-pi)		 1962[1]
Missouri
Flag of Missouri.svg		 "Missouri Waltz" melody: John V. Eppel
arranged: Frederic K. Logan		 J.R. Shannon 1949[1]
Montana
Flag of Montana.svg		 "Montana" 1945[1]
State ballad: "Montana Melody" 1983[1] [5]
Nebraska
Flag of Nebraska.svg		 Official: "Beautiful Nebraska" Jim Fras & Guy G. Miller 1967[1][31]
Nevada
Flag of Nevada.svg		 "Home Means Nevada" Bertha Rafetto 1933[1]
New Hampshire
Flag of New Hampshire.svg		 Official: "Old New Hampshire" 1949[1]
1977
Official: "Live Free or Die" Barry Palmer 2007
Honorary: "New Hampshire, My New Hampshire" 1963[1]
Honorary: "New Hampshire Hills" 1973[1]
Honorary: "Autumn in New Hampshire" 1977[1]
Honorary: "New Hampshire's Granite State" 1977[1]
Honorary: "Oh, New Hampshire" 1977[1]
Honorary: "The Old Man of the Mountain" 1977[1]
Honorary: "The New Hampshire State March" 1977[1]
Honorary: "New Hampshire Naturally" 1983[1][32]
New Jersey
Flag of New Jersey.svg		 None [33]
New Mexico
Flag of New Mexico.svg		 State song: "O Fair New Mexico" Elizabeth Garrett 1917[1]
Spanish state song: "Así Es Nuevo Méjico" Elizabeth Garrett 1971[1]
State ballad: "Land of Enchantment" 1989[1]
Bilingual song: "New Mexico – Mi Lindo Nuevo México" Elizabeth Garrett 1995[1]
State cowboy song: "Under New Mexico Skies" Syd Masters 2009
New York
Flag of New York.svg		 "I Love New York" Steve Karmen[34]
North Carolina
Flag of North Carolina.svg		 "The Old North State" 1927[1]
North Dakota
Flag of North Dakota.svg		 "North Dakota Hymn" 1947[1]
Ohio
Flag of Ohio.svg		 "Beautiful Ohio" Mary Earl Ballard MacDonald (1969)
Wilbert McBride (1989)		 1969[1][35]
Rock song: "Hang On Sloopy" The McCoys 1985[1][36]
Oklahoma
Flag of Oklahoma.svg		 Official song: "Oklahoma" Rodgers and Hammerstein 1953[1][37]
Official state waltz: "Oklahoma Wind" 1982[1]
Rock song: "Do You Realize??" The Flaming Lips 2009[38]
Official state folk song: "Oklahoma Hills" Woody Guthrie and Jack Guthrie 2001[39]
Oregon
Flag of Oregon.svg		 "Oregon, My Oregon" J.A. Buchanan and
Henry B. Murtaghin		 1927[1]
Pennsylvania
Flag of Pennsylvania.svg		 "Pennsylvania" 1990[1]
Rhode Island
Flag of Rhode Island.svg		 State march: "Rhode Island" 1996
State song: "Rhode Island, It's for Me" 1996[1]
South Carolina
Flag of South Carolina.svg		 "Carolina" Anne Curtis Burgess Henry Timrod
G.R. Goodwin (editor)		 1911[1]
"South Carolina on My Mind" Hank Martin and Buzz Arledge 1984[1]
South Dakota
Flag of South Dakota.svg		 "Hail, South Dakota!" DeeCort Hammitt 1943[1]
Tennessee
Flag of Tennessee.svg		 "My Homeland, Tennessee" Roy Lamont Smith Nell Grayson Taylor 1925[40]
"When It's Iris Time in Tennessee" Willa Waid Newman 1935[1][40]
"My Tennessee" Frances Hannah Tranum 1955[40]
"Tennessee Waltz" Pee Wee King Redd Stewart 1965[1][40]
"Rocky Top" Boudleaux Bryant /
Felice Bryant		 1982[1][40]
"Tennessee" Vivian Rorie 1992[40]
"The Pride of Tennessee" Fred Congdon /
Thomas Vaughn /
Carol Elliot		 1996[1][40]
"A Tennessee Bicentennial Rap: 1796-1996" Joan Hill Hanks 1996[40]
"Smoky Mountain Rain" Kye Fleming
Dennis Morgan		 2010[40][41][42]
"Tennessee" John R. Bean 2012[40]
Texas
Flag of Texas.svg		 "Texas, Our Texas" William J. Marsh William J. Marsh and Gladys Yoakum Wright 1929[43][44]
Utah
Flag of Utah.svg		 State song: "Utah, This Is the Place" Sam and Gary Francis 2003[45]
State hymn: "Utah, We Love Thee"
(State Song 1937-2003)[46]		 Evan Stephens 2003[1]
Vermont
Flag of Vermont.svg		 "These Green Mountains" Diane Martin (composer)
Rita Buglass Gluck (arranger)		 Diane Martin 1999[1][47]
Virginia
Flag of Virginia.svg		 Traditional state song: "Our Great Virginia" Jim Papoulis (arranger), based on "Oh Shenandoah" Mike Greenly 2015[3]
Popular state song: "Sweet Virginia Breeze" Steve Bassett and Robbin Thompson 2015[3]
Emeritus state song: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (retired as official song in 1998) James Bland[48] 1940[1][2]
Washington
Flag of Washington.svg		 State song: "Washington, My Home" Stuart Churchill (arranger) Helen Davis 1959[1]
State folk song: "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" based on "Goodnight, Irene" Woody Guthrie 1987[1][49]
Unofficial state rock song: "Louie Louie" Richard Berry Richard Berry unofficial[50]
West Virginia
Flag of West Virginia.svg		 Official state song: "The West Virginia Hills" Henry Everett Engle Ellen Ruddell King 1963[1][51]
Official state song: "This Is My West Virginia" Iris Bell Iris Bell 1963[1][51]
Official state song: "West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home" Julian G. Hearne, Jr. Julian G. Hearne, Jr. 1963[1][51]
Official state song: "Take Me Home, Country Roads" John Denver
Bill Danoff
Taffy Nivert		 2014[52]
Wisconsin
Flag of Wisconsin.svg		 State song: "On, Wisconsin!" William T. Purdy Charles D. Rosa and J. S. Hubbard 1959[1][53]
State ballad: "Oh Wisconsin, Land of My Dreams" Shari A. Sarazin Erma Barrett 2001[1][53]
State waltz: "The Wisconsin Waltz" Eddie Hansen Eddie Hansen 2001[1][53]
Wyoming
Flag of Wyoming.svg		 "Wyoming" George Edwin Knapp Charles E. Winter 1955[1][54]

Territories

Some American overseas territories, although not U.S. states, have songs and marches of their own.

Territory Song Composer(s) Lyricist(s) Year adopted
American Samoa
Flag of American Samoa.svg		 "Amerika Samoa"
District of Columbia
Flag of the District of Columbia.svg		 Song: "Washington" Jimmie Dodd 1951[55]
March: "Our Nation's Capital" Anthony A. Mitchell 1961[55]
Guam
Flag of Guam.svg		 "Stand Ye Guamanians" 1919
Northern Mariana Islands
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg		 "Gi Talo Gi Halom Tasi" 1996
Puerto Rico
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg		 "La Borinqueña" Félix Astol Artés Manuel Fernández Juncos 1977
United States Virgin Islands
Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg		 "Virgin Islands March" 1963

See also

References

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  21. ↑ Lyrics & act numbers of official songs
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  25. ↑ M.G.L. 2:27
  26. ↑ M.G.L. 2:31
  27. ↑ M.G.L. 2:43
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  34. ↑ http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/emblems/song.htms
  35. ↑ Ohio Revised Code: 1989 S 33, eff. 11-6-89; 1989 H 457
  36. ↑ House Concurrent Resolution 16 on November 20, 1985.
  37. ↑ 25 Okla. Stat. § 94.3
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  44. ↑ "State Song" (Texas Government Code § 3101.005)
  45. ↑ Utah State Song - "Utah, This is the Place" from pioneer.utah.gov "Pioneer: Utah's Online Library" page. Retrieved on 2008-09-08
  46. ↑ Utah State Hymn - "Utah We Love Thee" from pioneer.utah.gov "Pioneer: Utah's Online Library" page. Retrieved on 2008-09-08
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