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==State songs== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! scope="col" style="width:15%;"| State ! scope="col" | State song ! scope="col" | Composer(s) ! scope="col" | Lyricist(s) ! scope="col" | Year adopted |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Alabama}} | "[[Alabama (Julia Tutwiler song)|Alabama]]" || Edna Gockel Gussen||[[Julia S. Tutwiler]] || 1931<ref name=RJo/><ref>Act 31-126, Acts of Alabama, {{cite web |url=http://www.archives.state.al.us/emblems/st_song.html |title=STATE SONG: Alabama |access-date=2007-02-06 |date=2006-04-27 |work=Official Symbols and Emblems of Alabama |publisher=Alabama Department of Archives & History |archive-date=2012-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728100000/http://www.archives.state.al.us/emblems/st_song.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Alaska}} | "[[Alaska's Flag]]" || Elinor Dusenbury || [[Marie Drake]] || 1955<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dced.state.ak.us/oed/student_info/learn/statesong.htm |title=Official State Song |access-date=2007-02-06 |work=Alaska Information |publisher=State of Alaska Office of Economic Development |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313091354/http://www.dced.state.ak.us/oed/student_info/learn/statesong.htm |archive-date=2007-03-13 }}</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=2 | {{flagu|Arizona}} | '''State song:''' "[[State songs of Arizona|Arizona]]" || [[Rex Allen]] and [[Rex Allen, Jr.]] || Rex Allen and Rex Allen, Jr. || 1981<ref name=RJo/><ref name=AZ>{{cite web |url=http://www.azsos.gov/public_services/kids/kids_state_songs.htm |title=Arizona State Anthems |access-date=2007-02-06 |year=2003 |work=SOS for Kids |publisher=Arizona Secretary of State's Office}}</ref> |- | '''State anthem:''' "[[State songs of Arizona|Arizona March Song]]" || Maurice Blumenthal || Margaret Rowe Clifford || 1919<ref name=RJo/><ref name=AZ/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=4 | {{flagu|Arkansas}} | '''State anthem:''' "[[Arkansas (song)|Arkansas]]" || Eva Ware Barnett || Eva Ware Barnett || 1917/1987<ref name=RJo/><ref name=AR>{{cite web |url=http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/educational/students/Pages/stateSongs.aspx |title=State Songs |access-date=2015-07-10 |publisher=Arkansas Secretary of State's Office |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710223318/http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/educational/students/Pages/stateSongs.aspx |archive-date=2015-07-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |- | "[[Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me)]]" || [[Wayland Holyfield]] || Wayland Holyfield || 1987<ref name=RJo/><ref name=AR/> |- | "[[Oh, Arkansas]]" || Terry Rose and Gary Klaff || Terry Rose and Gary Klaff || 1987<ref name=RJo/><ref name=AR/> |- | '''State historic song:''' "[[The Arkansas Traveler (song)|Arkansas Traveler]]" || [[Sandford C. Faulkner]] || State Song Selection Committee || 1949/1987<ref name=RJo/><ref name=AR/> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|California}} | "[[I Love You, California]]" || Abraham F. Frankenstein || F. B. Silverwood || 1951<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=2 | {{flagu|Colorado}} | "[[Where the Columbines Grow]]" || colspan="2" | A.J. Fynn || 1915<ref name=RJo/><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=State Songs|url=https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/archives/state-songs|date=2014-07-16|website=Colorado State Archives|language=en|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref><ref name="COsong">{{cite web|title=Colorado State Song|url=http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/history/symbemb.htm#Song|work=Colorado State Symbols & Emblems|publisher=[[Colorado|State of Colorado]], Department of Personnel & Administration, Colorado State Archives|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107145753/https://www.colorado.gov/archives#Song|archive-date=2019-01-07|access-date=2007-02-21}}</ref> |- | "[[Rocky Mountain High]]" || [[John Denver]] and Mike Taylor|| John Denver || 2007<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite news | url= http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_5418736 | title= Lawmakers OK 'Rocky Mountain High' | newspaper= The Denver Post | date= March 12, 2007 | access-date= 2007-03-12 | first=Jennifer | last=Brown}} CRS 24-80-909</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=4 | {{flagu|Connecticut}} | '''State song:''' "[[Yankee Doodle]]" || || || 1978<ref name="sotsct">{{citation |title= Illustrations and Descriptions of State Seal, State Flag and other Emblems |work= Connecticut State Register and Manual |publisher= Secretary of the State |date= 2020 |pages= 827–828 |url= https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/SOTS/RegisterManual/RM_Archive/CT2020.pdf |access-date= 2021-06-18}}</ref><ref name="ctgenstat">{{citation |title= Title 3 State Elective Officers, Chapter 33 Secretary |work= General Statutes of Connecticut |date= January 1, 2021 |url= https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_033.htm |access-date= 2021-06-18}}</ref> |- | '''Second state song:''' "Beautiful Connecticut Waltz" || colspan="2" | Joseph Leggo || 2013<ref name="sotsct" /><ref name="ctgenstat" /> |- | '''State [[cantata]]:''' "[[Nutmegger|The Nutmeg]]" || colspan="2" | Stanley L. Ralph || 2003<ref name="sotsct" /><ref name="ctgenstat" /> |- | '''State [[polka]]:''' "Ballroom Polka" || colspan="2" | Ray Henry || 2013<ref name="ctgenstat" /><ref>{{citation |title= Ansonia's 'Polka Pete' to receive Connecticut lifetime achievement award |date= May 7, 2014 |work= New Haven Register |url= https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/Ansonia-s-Polka-Pete-to-receive-11372588.php |access-date= 2021-06-18}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Delaware}} | "[[Our Delaware]]" || Will M. S. Brown | [[George Beswick Hynson]] | 1925<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=3 | {{flagu|Florida}} | '''Official song:''' "[[Old Folks at Home|Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)]]" (with revised lyrics) || [[Stephen Foster]] || Original: Stephen Foster<br />Adapted: [[Stephen Foster Memorial]] at the [[University of Pittsburgh]] | 1935 (original lyrics)<ref name=RJo/><br />2008 (revised lyrics)<ref>[http://www.flca.net/images/50508_Status_of_Bills.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728195711/http://www.flca.net/images/50508_Status_of_Bills.pdf|date=2013-07-28}} "Summary of Bills Related to Arts, Cultural, Arts Education. Or Historical Resources That Passed the 2008 Florida Legislature May 5, 2008", Retrieved 2011-12-14</ref> |- |'''Official poem:''' "[[I Am Florida]]" || Walter "Clyde" Orange || Allen Autry Sr. ||2013<ref name="Florida Senate Resolution">{{cite web|title=SR1894|url=http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/1894/BillText/__/PDF|work=flsenate.gov|publisher=Florida State Senate|access-date=9 January 2014}}</ref><ref name="I Am Florida">{{cite web|title=I Am Florida|url=http://www.iamflorida.org|work=www.iamflorida.org|access-date=9 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109215103/http://iamflorida.org/|archive-date=9 January 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | '''State anthem:''' "[[Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky)]]"|| colspan="2" |Jan Hinton|| 2008<ref>[http://www.janhintonmusic.com/ from janhintonmusic.com] "Home" page. Retrieved on November 27, 2008</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Georgia (U.S. state)|name=Georgia}} | "[[Georgia on My Mind]]", sung by [[Ray Charles]] || [[Hoagy Carmichael]] || [[Stuart Gorrell]] || 1979<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Hawaii}} | '''State anthem:''' "[[Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī]]" || [[Henri Berger]] || [[Kalākaua|King David Kalākaua]] || 1967<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol01_Ch0001-0042F/HRS0005/HRS_0005-0010.htm|title=Hawaii Revised Statutes §5-10|website=hawaii.gov|access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Idaho}} | "[[Here We Have Idaho]]" || Sallie Hume Douglas || McKinley Helm and Albert J. Tompkins | 1931<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Illinois}} | "[[Illinois (state song)|Illinois]]" ||Archibald Johnston||Charles H. Chamberlain|| 1925<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6UqKD2nndngC&q=illinois%2520state%2520song%2520was%2520adopted&pg=PA32 |title=State Songs of the United States: An Annotated Anthology |date=1997 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=9780789003973 |language=en}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Indiana}} | "[[On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away]]" || colspan="2" | [[Paul Dresser]]|| 1913<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=2 | {{flagu|Iowa}} | "[[The Song of Iowa]]" || [[Melchior Franck]] || [[S. H. M. Byers]] | 1911<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Official Companion State Song:''' "Make Me a World in Iowa"||Effie Burt || || 2002<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/GA/79GA/Legislation/HR/00100/HR00126/Current.html|title=HR 126 ...recognizing Ms. Effie Burt for her composition, "I'll M...|website=www.legis.iowa.gov|access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=3 | {{flagu|Kansas}} | "[[Home on the Range]]" || [[Daniel E. Kelley]] | [[Brewster M. Higley]] | 1947<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Home on the Range - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society|url=https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/home-on-the-range/17165|access-date=2021-12-02|website=www.kshs.org}}</ref> |- | '''Official state march:''' "The Kansas March" || || || 1935<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Official march:''' "Here's Kansas" || || || 1992<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=2 | {{flagu|Kentucky}} | '''State song:''' "[[My Old Kentucky Home]]" || colspan="2" | [[Stephen Foster]]|| 1928<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Bluegrass song:''' "[[Blue Moon of Kentucky]]" || colspan="2" | [[Bill Monroe]]|| 1988<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=36 |title=KRS 002.100|website=ky.gov|access-date=1 December 2019}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=4 | {{flagu|Louisiana}} | "[[You Are My Sunshine]]" || colspan="2" | [[Jimmie Davis]] and [[Charles Mitchell (songwriter)|Charles Mitchell]]|| 1977<ref name="RJo" /> |- | '''State march:''' "Louisiana My Home Sweet Home"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Louisiana Laws |url=http://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=103543 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002212044/http://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=103543 |archive-date=2023-10-02 |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=Louisiana State Legislature}}</ref>|| Castro Carazo |Sammie McKenzie and Lou Levoy|| 1952<ref name="RJo" /> |- | '''State environmental song:''' "The Gifts of Earth"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/around/facts/songs.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717235137/http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/around/facts/songs.htm|url-status=dead|title=Lyrics & act numbers of official songs|archivedate=July 17, 2006}}</ref>|| colspan="2" | Frances LeBeau|| 1990<ref>{{Cite web |title=Louisiana Laws |url=http://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=103544 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002212112/http://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=103544 |archive-date=2023-10-02 |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=Louisiana State Legislature}}</ref> |- | '''State cultural song:''' "[[Southern Nights (song)|Southern Nights]]"<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Louisiana Laws |url=http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=21rs&b=HB351&sbi=y |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002213503/http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=21rs&b=HB351&sbi=y |archive-date=2023-10-02 |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=Louisiana State Legislature}}</ref>|| colspan="2" | [[Allen Toussaint]]|| 2021<ref name=":1" /> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=2 | {{flagu|Maine}} | '''State song:''' [[State of Maine Song|State of Maine]] || Roger Vinton Snow || Roger Vinton Snow || 1937<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''State ballad:''' [[The Ghost of Paul Revere|Ballad of the 20th Maine]] || [[The Ghost of Paul Revere]] || Griffin Sherry || 2019 |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Maryland}} | None<ref name=":2" /> |N/A |N/A |N/A |- ! scope="row" rowspan=7 | {{flagu|Massachusetts}} | '''State anthem:''' "[[All Hail to Massachusetts]]" || colspan="2" | Arthur J. Marsh || 1981<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-19.htm|title=Section 19|website=www.mass.gov|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=20 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120042709/http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-19.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | '''State folk song:''' "[[Massachusetts (Arlo Guthrie song)|Massachusetts]]" || colspan="2" | [[Arlo Guthrie]]|| 1981<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-20.htm|title=Section 20|website=www.mass.gov|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=23 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123050926/http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-20.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | '''State ceremonial march:''' "[[The Road to Boston]]" || ''Unknown'' | || 1985<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-27.htm|title=Section 27|website=www.mass.gov|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=23 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123051849/http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-27.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | '''State patriotic song:''' "[[Massachusetts (Because of You Our Land is Free)]]" || colspan="2" | Bernard Davidson || 1989<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-31.htm|title=Section 31|website=www.mass.gov|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=23 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123062123/http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-31.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | '''State glee club song:''' "[[The Great State of Massachusetts]]" || J. Earl Bley | [[George A. Wells (politician)|George A. Wells]] | 1997<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-43.htm|title=Section 43|website=www.mass.gov|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=23 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123062652/http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-43.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | '''State [[polka]]:''' "[[Say Hello to Someone from Massachusetts]]" || colspan="2" | [[Lenny Gomulka]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagopush.com/spolka.htm|title=Official Web Site of Lenny Gomulka and the Chicago Push|website=chicagopush.com|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307040608/http://www.chicagopush.com/spolka.htm|archive-date=7 March 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>|| 1998<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-44.htm|title=Section 44|website=www.mass.gov|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=23 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123062331/http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-44.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | '''State [[ode]]:''' "[[Ode to Massachusetts]]" || colspan="2" | Joseph Falzone | 2000<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-47.htm|title=Section 47|website=www.mass.gov|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=23 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123061631/http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/2-47.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Michigan}} | '''An official state song:''' "[[My Michigan]]" || H. O'Reilly Clint || Giles Kavanaugh || 1937<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Minnesota}} | "[[Hail! Minnesota]]" || Truman Rickard | [[Cyrus Northrop]] | 1945<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=3 | {{flagu|Mississippi}} | "Mississippi"|| colspan="2" | Bonita Crowe | 1916<ref>Howes, Durward, ed. (1937). ''[https://archive.org/details/americanwomenoff02howe/page/154/mode/2up American Women : The Official Who's Who Among the Women of the Nation, Vol. II (1937-38)]''. Los Angeles, CA: American Publications, Inc. p. 155. {{OCLC|435906904}}.</ref><ref>Sullivan, P. Lance, ed. (1990). ''[https://archive.org/details/atlantaanthology0000unse/page/16/mode/2up?q=%22bonita+crowe+for+example%22 An Atlanta Anthology : Pen Women : Sixty Years of Art, Music, and Letters]''. Atlanta, GA: Words Worth Publishing. p. 16. {{ISBN|0962605700}}. "Bonita Crowe, for example, was a nationally known pianist and composer, who served on the National Council of the Metropolitan Opera Association in New York, who played at the White House as the guest of Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, and whose compositions were performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra. While living in Hattiesburg, Miss., she composed the Mississippi state song and put to music many poems of the South."</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/652815526/?clipping_id=127197099 "P. T. A. of Hardy Street School"]. ''Hattiesburg Daily News''. December 7, 1916. p. 5. Retrieved June 27, 2023.</ref> |- | "[[Go, Mississippi]]" || colspan="2" | [[William Houston Davis]] | 1962 |- | "One Mississippi" || colspan="2" | [[Steve Azar]] | 2022<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Missouri}} | "[[Missouri Waltz]]" || melody: John V. Eppel<br />arranged: Frederic K. Logan || J.R. Shannon || 1949<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=3 | {{flagu|Montana}} | "[[Montana (state song)|Montana]]" || [[Joseph E. Howard]] | Charles Cohan | 1945<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''State ballad:''' "Montana Melody" || || || 1983<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''State lullaby:''' "Montana Lullaby" || || || 2007<ref>{{citation |title=Montana Code Annotated 2019, Title 1, Chapter 1, Part 5, 1-1-530 State lullaby |url=https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/title_0010/chapter_0010/part_0050/section_0300/0010-0010-0050-0300.html |access-date=2019-10-27}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Nebraska}} | '''Official:''' "[[Beautiful Nebraska]]" || Jim Fras || Jim Fras and Guy Miller | 1967<ref name=RJo/><ref>[http://www.sos.ne.gov/symbols/song.html NE-gov-symbols].</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Nevada}} | "[[Home Means Nevada]]" || || [[Bertha Rafetto]] | 1933<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=10 | {{flagu|New Hampshire}} | '''Official:''' "[[Old New Hampshire]]" || Maurice Hoffman | John F. Holmes | 1949<ref name=RJo/><br />1977 |- | '''Official:''' "Live Free or Die" || Barry Palmer || || 2007 |- | '''Honorary:''' "New Hampshire, My New Hampshire" || || || 1963<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Honorary:''' "New Hampshire Hills" || || || 1973<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Honorary:''' "Autumn in New Hampshire" || || || 1977<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Honorary:''' "New Hampshire's Granite State" || || || 1977<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Honorary:''' "Oh, New Hampshire" || || || 1977<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Honorary:''' "The Old Man of the Mountain" || || || 1977<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Honorary:''' "The New Hampshire State March" || || || 1977<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Honorary:''' "New Hampshire Naturally" || || || 1983<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/I/3/3-7.htm|title=Section 3:7 State Songs.|website=www.gencourt.state.nh.us|access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|New Jersey}} | None<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/faqs/facts.html/|title=Frequently Asked Questions {{!}} NJ Facts|last=reynolds|website=www.state.nj.us|language=EN|access-date=2017-11-09}}</ref> || N/A || N/A || N/A |- ! scope="row" rowspan=5 | {{flagu|New Mexico}} | '''State song:''' "[[O Fair New Mexico]]" || colspan="2" | [[Elizabeth Garrett (song writer)|Elizabeth Garrett]]|| 1917<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Spanish state song:''' "[[Así Es Nuevo México]]" || colspan="2" | Amadeo Lucero|| 1971<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''State ballad:''' "[[Land of Enchantment (song)|Land of Enchantment]]" || colspan="2" | Michael Martin Murphey, [[Don Cook]], and Chick Rains | 1989<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''Bilingual song:''' "[[New Mexico – Mi Lindo Nuevo México]]" || colspan="2" | Pablo Mares || 1995<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''State cowboy song:''' "Under New Mexico Skies" || Syd Masters || || 2009 |- ! scope="row" rowspan=2 | {{flagu|New York}} | '''State song:''' "[[I Love New York]]" ||colspan=2 | [[Steve Karmen]] || 1980<ref>{{Cite web |title=New York State Information and Emblems: New York State Library |url=http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/reference/emblems.htm |website=www.nysl.nysed.gov |access-date=2020-05-12}}</ref> |- | '''State hymn of remembrance:''' "Here Rests in Honored Glory" ||colspan=2 | Donald B. Miller || 2018<ref>{{citation |title= Section 91. State hymn of remembrance in honor of all American veterans |work= New York Consolidated Laws, State Law, Article 6 |url= https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/STL/91 |access-date=2019-12-26|date= 2019-10-29 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |title= New York gets new veterans' hymn despite objections to Christian theme |first=Chad |last= Arnold |date= January 3, 2019 |work= [[Democrat and Chronicle]] |url= https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2019/01/03/new-york-veterans-hymn/2422076002/ |access-date= 2019-12-26}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|North Carolina}} | "[[The Old North State (song)|The Old North State]]" || E.E. Randolph | [[William Gaston]] | 1927<ref name=RJo/> |- ! rowspan="2" scope="row" | {{flagu|North Dakota}} | "[[North Dakota Hymn]]" || C. S. Putnam | James Folely | 1947<ref name=RJo/> |- |'''State Waltz:''' "Dancing Dakota" | colspan="2" |[[Chuck Suchy]] |2025<ref>{{Cite web |title=HB 1397 - Overview {{!}} North Dakota Legislative Branch |url=https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/bill-overview/bo1397.html |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=ndlegis.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Shores |first=Elizabeth |date=2025-03-28 |title=‘Dancing Dakota’ becomes state waltz; Chuck Suchy ND’s first state troubadour |url=https://www.kfyrtv.com/2025/03/28/dancing-dakota-becomes-state-waltz-chuck-suchy-nds-first-state-troubadour/ |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=www.kfyrtv.com |language=en}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=2 | {{flagu|Ohio}} | "[[Beautiful Ohio]]" || Mary Earl || Ballard MacDonald (1918)<br />Wilbert McBride (1989) || 1969<ref name=RJo/><ref>Ohio Revised Code: 1989 S 33, eff. 11-6-89; 1989 H 457</ref> |- | '''Rock song:''' "[[Hang On Sloopy]]" || colspan="2" | [[Wes Farrell]] and [[Bert Berns]] || 1985<ref name=RJo/><ref>House Concurrent Resolution 16 on November 20, 1985.</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=5 | {{flagu|Oklahoma}} | '''Official state song:''' "[[Oklahoma (state song)|Oklahoma]]" || [[Richard Rodgers]] || [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] | 1953<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os25.rtf|title=25 Okla. Stat.] § 94.1–3|website=state.ok.us|access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref> |- | '''Official state waltz:''' "Oklahoma Wind" || || || 1982<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''State Folk Song:''' "[[Oklahoma Hills]]" || colspan="2" | [[Woody Guthrie]] and [[Jack Guthrie]]|| 2001<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=210928|title=Oklahoma Session Laws – 2001 – Section 47 – Oklahoma State Folk Song; declaring "Oklahoma Hills" as the Oklahoma State Folk Song. Effective date.|website=www.oscn.net|access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref><ref>25 Okla. Stat. § 94.8–10</ref> |- | '''Official state children's song:''' "Oklahoma, My Native Land" || Martha Kemm Barrett || || 1996<ref>25 Okla. Stat. § 94.5–7</ref> |- | '''Official state gospel song:''' "[[Swing Low, Sweet Chariot]]" || colspan="2" | [[Wallis Willis]]|| 2011<ref>25 Okla. Stat. § 94.11–13</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Oregon}} | "[[Oregon, My Oregon]]" || Henry Bernard Murtagh || [[John Andrew Buchanan]] | 1927<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=2 | {{flagu|Pennsylvania}} | "[[Pennsylvania (song)|Pennsylvania]]" ||Eddie Khoury and Ronnie Bonner | || 1990<ref name=RJo/> |- |“Pennsylvania” |[[Gertrude Rohrer]] |Gertrude Rohrer |1960 |- ! scope="row" rowspan=2 | {{flagu|Rhode Island}} | '''State march:''' "[[Rhode Island (song)|Rhode Island]]" || || || 1996 |- | '''State song:''' "[[Rhode Island, It's for Me]]" ||Maria Day and Kathryn Chester ||Charlie Hall || 1996<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=3 | {{flagu|South Carolina}} | "[[Carolina (state song)|Carolina]]" ||Anne Curtis Burgess ||[[Henry Timrod]]<br />G.R. Goodwin (editor) || 1911<ref name=RJo/> |- | "[[South Carolina on My Mind]]"|| Hank Martin and Buzz Arledge || || 1984<ref name=RJo/> |- | "Richardson Waltz"|| unknown || || 2000<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Heisser |first=David C. R. |date=July 21, 2001 |title=Richardson Waltz |encyclopedia=South Carolina Encyclopedia |publisher=[[University of South Carolina]]|url=https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/richardson-waltz/ }}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|South Dakota}} | "[[Hail, South Dakota!]]"||DeeCort Hammitt || || 1943<ref name=RJo/> |- ! rowspan="14" scope="row" | {{flagu|Tennessee}} | "[[My Homeland, Tennessee]]" || Roy Lamont Smith || Nell Grayson Taylor|| 1925<ref name=tngov>{{cite web|title=State Songs|url=http://www.tn.gov/state-songs.shtml|publisher=State of Tennessee|access-date=27 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221144440/http://www.tn.gov/state-songs.shtml|archive-date=21 February 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> |- | "When It's Iris Time in Tennessee"|| Willa Waid Newman || || 1935<ref name=RJo/><ref name=tngov/> |- | "My Tennessee"|| Frances Hannah Tranum || || 1955<ref name=tngov/> |- | "[[Tennessee Waltz]]"|| [[Pee Wee King]] || [[Redd Stewart]]|| 1965<ref name=RJo/><ref name=tngov/> |- | "[[Rocky Top]]"|| colspan="2" | [[Felice and Boudleaux Bryant]] || 1982<ref name=RJo/><ref name=tngov/> |- | "[[Tennessee (Vivian Rorie song)|Tennessee]]" || Vivian Rorie || || 1992<ref name=tngov/> |- | "The Pride of Tennessee"|| Fred Congdon, Thomas Vaughn, and Carol Elliot || || 1996<ref name=RJo/><ref name=tngov/> |- | "A Tennessee Bicentennial Rap: 1796-1996"|| Joan Hill Hanks || || 1996<ref name=tngov/> |- | "[[Smoky Mountain Rain]]"|| colspan="2" | [[Kye Fleming]]<br />[[Dennis Morgan (songwriter)|Dennis Morgan]]|| 2010<ref name=tngov/><ref>''Tennessee Journal'', Vol. 36, No. 23, June 4, 2010</ref><ref name=HumphreyRain>Tom Humphrey, [http://blogs.knoxnews.com/humphrey/2010/06/smoky-mountain-rain-wins-race.html 'Smoky Mountain Rain' Wins Race to Become 8th State Song] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606040248/http://blogs.knoxnews.com/humphrey/2010/06/smoky-mountain-rain-wins-race.html |date=2010-06-06 }}, KnoxNews website, June 3, 2010.</ref> |- | "Tennessee"|| John R. Bean || || 2012<ref name=tngov/> |- | "The Tennessee in Me"|| Debbie Matthas || || 2023<ref name=copper>{{cite web |url=https://www.wate.com/news/tennessee/steve-earle-copperhead-road-state-song/ |title='Copperhead Road' becomes Tennessee's newest official state song |last= Raucoules |first=Gregory |date= 26 April 2023 |website= www.wate.com |publisher= [[Nexstar Media Group]]|access-date= 4 May 2023}}</ref> |- | "[[Copperhead Road (song)|Copperhead Road]]"|| [[Steve Earle]] || || 2023<ref name=copper/> |- |"Tennessee, In My Dreams" |[[Makky Kaylor]] |Makky Kaylor |2024<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gregory |first=Chris |date=2024-05-29 |title=Columbia songwriter pens newest official state song |url=https://mainstreetmediatn.com/articles/life-mainstreetmaury/columbia-songwriter-pens-newest-official-state-song/ |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=Main Street Media of Tennessee }}</ref> |- |"Under a Tennessee Moon" |[https://www.kellylang.net/ Kelly Lang] | |2024<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nationally Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter, Producer, And Author Kelly Lang’s “Under A Tennessee Moon” Named Newest Official Tennessee State Song {{!}} 2911 Enterprises, Inc. |url=https://2911.us/kelly-lang-under-a-tennessee-moon-named-newest-official-tennessee-state-song/ |access-date=2024-10-25 |language=en-US}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Texas}} | "[[Texas, Our Texas]]"||[[William John Marsh|William J. Marsh]]|| William J. Marsh and Gladys Yoakum Wright|| 1929<ref>{{cite book | last=Spain | first=Charles A. Jr. |date=19 May 2014 |chapter=Texas, Our Texas |title=Handbook of Texas Online|chapter-url= http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/xet01 |publisher=[[Texas State Historical Association]]|access-date=26 March 2015|title-link=Handbook of Texas Online }}</ref><ref>{{TX Govt Code|State Song||3101|005}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=2 | {{flagu|Utah}} | '''State song:''' "[[Utah...This Is the Place]]"|| colspan="2" | Sam and Gary Francis || 2003<ref>[http://pioneer.utah.gov/research/utah_symbols/song.html Utah State Song - "Utah, This is the Place"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725073734/http://pioneer.utah.gov/research/utah_symbols/song.html |date=2012-07-25 }} from pioneer.utah.gov "Pioneer: Utah's Online Library" page. Retrieved on 2008-09-08</ref> |- | '''State hymn:''' "[[Utah, We Love Thee]]"<br />(state song from 1937 to 2003)<ref name=UtahHymn>[http://pioneer.utah.gov/research/utah_symbols/hymn.html Utah State Hymn - "Utah We Love Thee"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728000017/http://pioneer.utah.gov/research/utah_symbols/hymn.html |date=2012-07-28 }} from pioneer.utah.gov "Pioneer: Utah's Online Library" page. Retrieved on 2008-09-08</ref> || colspan="2" | [[Evan Stephens]]|| 2003<ref name=RJo/> |- ! scope="row" | {{flagu|Vermont}} | "[[These Green Mountains]]"||Diane Martin (composer)<br />[[Rita Buglass Gluck]] (arranger) ||Diane Martin || 1999<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web|title=State Song|url=https://www.sec.state.vt.us/kids/song.html|publisher=[[Secretary of State of Vermont]]|access-date=26 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006153014/https://www.sec.state.vt.us/kids/song.html|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=3 | {{flagu|Virginia}} |'''Traditional state song:''' "[[Our Great Virginia]]" || Jim Papoulis (arranger), based on "[[Oh Shenandoah]]" || [[Mike Greenly]] || 2015<ref name=Patch/> |- |'''Popular state song:''' "[[Sweet Virginia Breeze]]" ||colspan=2| Steve Bassett and [[Robbin Thompson]] || 2015<ref name=Patch/> |- ||'''Emeritus state song:''' "[[Carry Me Back to Old Virginny]]" (retired as official song in 1998) ||colspan=2| [[James A. Bland]]<ref>The song was rescinded in 1998 but is still not yet replaced and still in use until for the time being.</ref> || 1940<ref name=RJo/><ref name="VA"/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=3 | {{flagu|Washington (state)|name=Washington}} | '''State song:''' "[[Washington, My Home]]" ||Stuart Churchill (arranger) ||[[Helen Davis]]|| 1959<ref name=RJo/> |- | '''State folk song:''' "[[Roll On, Columbia, Roll On]]" || based on "[[Goodnight, Irene]]" || [[Woody Guthrie]]|| 1987<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web | title= Symbols of Washington State | publisher= Washington State Legislature | url= http://www1.leg.wa.gov/Legislature/StateSymbols/ | access-date= 2007-03-11 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070305110012/http://www1.leg.wa.gov/Legislature/StateSymbols/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-03-05}}</ref> |- | '''Unofficial state rock song:''' "[[Louie Louie]]" || [[Richard Berry (musician)|Richard Berry]] ||Richard Berry ||unofficial<ref>{{cite web | title= When 'Louie, Louie' almost became Washington's state song | publisher= MyNorthwest | url= https://mynorthwest.com/2100161/when-louie-louie-almost-became-washingtons-state-song/ | date=2020-08-19 | access-date= 2023-01-08}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=4 | {{flagu|West Virginia}} | '''Official state song:''' "[[The West Virginia Hills]]"||Henry Everett Engle || Ellen Ruddell King|| 1963<ref name=RJo/><ref name="ramella">{{cite web |last1=Ramella |first1=Richard |title=West Virginia's Three State Songs |url=http://www.wvculture.org/goldenseal/summer04/wvhills.html |publisher=[[West Virginia Division of Culture and History]] |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222215326/http://www.wvculture.org/goldenseal/summer04/wvhills.html |archive-date=2021-02-22 |url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | '''Official state song:''' "This Is My West Virginia"||[[Iris Bell]] ||Iris Bell || 1963<ref name=RJo/><ref name="ramella"/> |- | '''Official state song:''' "West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home"||Julian G. Hearne, Jr. ||Julian G. Hearne, Jr. || 1963<ref name=RJo/><ref name="ramella"/> |- | '''Official state song:''' "[[Take Me Home, Country Roads]]"|| colspan="2" | [[John Denver]], [[Bill Danoff]], and [[Taffy Nivert]]|| 2014<ref>{{cite news | title = 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' a WVa State Song | newspaper = USA Today | date = March 7, 2014 | url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/07/take-me-home-country-roads/6178375/}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=3 | {{flagu|Wisconsin}} | '''State song:''' "[[On, Wisconsin!]]" || William T. Purdy || [[Charles D. Rosa]] and J. S. Hubbard || 1959<ref name=RJo/><ref name="wisc"/> |- | '''State ballad:''' "Oh Wisconsin, Land of My Dreams" || Shari A. Sarazin || Erma Barrett || 2001<ref name=RJo/><ref name="wisc">{{cite web|title=State song, state ballad, state waltz, state dance, and state symbols|url=http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/1/11|publisher=Wisconsin Legislature 1.10|access-date=26 March 2015}}</ref> |- | '''State waltz:''' "The Wisconsin Waltz" || Eddie Hansen || Eddie Hansen || 2001<ref name=RJo/><ref name="wisc"/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan=2 | {{flagu|Wyoming}} | '''State song:''' "[[Wyoming (song)|Wyoming]]" ||George Edwin Knapp || [[Charles E. Winter]] || 1955<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.wyo.gov/about-wyoming/wyoming-facts-and-symbols | title=Wyoming Facts and Symbols: State Song |publisher=State of Wyoming |access-date=26 March 2015}}</ref> |- | '''State song:''' "Wyoming Where I Belong" || Annie & Amy Smith || Annie & Amy Smith || 2018<ref name=RJo/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.wyo.gov/about-wyoming/wyoming-facts-and-symbols | title=Wyoming Facts and Symbols: State Song |publisher=State of Wyoming |access-date=7 July 2022}}</ref> |}
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