List of U.S. state songs
State songs

List of U.S. state songs

Section Title: State songs
Table Section Text: None

State	State song	Composer(s)	Lyricist(s)	Year adopted

-	"Alabama"	Edna Gockel Gussen	Julia S. Tutwiler	1931

-	"Alaska's Flag"	Elinor Dusenbury	Marie Drake	1955

-	State song: "Arizona"	Rex Allen and Rex Allen, Jr.	Rex Allen and Rex Allen, Jr.	1981

State anthem: "Arizona March Song"	Maurice Blumenthal	Margaret Rowe Clifford	1919

-	State anthem: "Arkansas"	Eva Ware Barnett	Eva Ware Barnett	1917/1987

"Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me)"	Wayland Holyfield	Wayland Holyfield	1987

"Oh, Arkansas"	Terry Rose and Gary Klaff	Terry Rose and Gary Klaff	1987

State historical song: "The Arkansas Traveler"	Sanford Faulkner	(Official lyrics by committee, 1947)	1949/1987

-	"I Love You, California"	Abraham F. Frankenstein	F. B. Silverwood	1951

-	"Where the Columbines Grow"	A.J. Fynn	1915

"Rocky Mountain High"	John Denver and Mike Taylor	John Denver	2007

-	State song: "Yankee Doodle"	1978

State cantata: "The Nutmeg"	2003

-	"Our Delaware"	1925

-	Official song: Revised lyrics of "Old Folks at Home (Suwanee River)"	Adopted by the Stephen Foster Memorial at the University of Pittsburgh from the original by Stephen Foster	2008 (revised lyrics) 1935 (original lyrics)

Official poem: "I Am Florida"	Walter "Clyde" Orange	Allen Autry Sr.	2013

State anthem: "Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky)"	Jan Hinton	2008

-	"Georgia on My Mind", sung by Ray Charles	Hoagy Carmichael	Stuart Gorrell	1979

-	State anthem: "Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī"	Henri Berger	King David Kalākaua	1967

-	"Here We Have Idaho"	Sallie Hume Douglas	1931

-	"Illinois"	Archibald Johnston	Charles H. Chamberlain	1925

-	"On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away"	Paul Dresser	1913

-	"The Song of Iowa"	S.H.M. Byers	1911

Official Companion State Song: "Make Me a World in Iowa"	Effie Burt	2002

-	"Home on the Range"	1947

Official state march: "The Kansas March"	1935

Official march: "Here's Kansas"	1992

-	State song: "My Old Kentucky Home"	Stephen Foster	1928

Bluegrass song: "Blue Moon of Kentucky"	Bill Monroe	1988

"Kentucky Home Made Christmas"

-	"Give Me Louisiana"	Doralice Fontane	1970

"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis (former governor)	1977

State march: "Louisiana My Home Sweet Home"	1952

Environmental song: "The Gifts of Earth"

-	"State of Maine Song"	Roger Vinton Snow	1937

-	"Maryland, My Maryland" (to the tune of "O Tannenbaum")	James Ryder Randall	1939

-	State anthem: "All Hail to Massachusetts"	Arthur J. Marsh	1981

State folk song: "Massachusetts"	Arlo Guthrie	1981

State ceremonial march: "The Road to Boston"	1985

State patriotic song: "Massachusetts (Because of You Our Land is Free)"	Bernard Davidson	1989

State glee club song: "The Great State of Massachusetts"	1997

State polka: "Say Hello to Someone from Massachusetts"	Lenny Gomulka	1998

State ode: "Ode to Massachusetts"	2000

-	An official state song: "My Michigan"	H. O'Reilly Clint	Giles Kavanaugh	1937

-	"Hail! Minnesota"	1945

-	"Go, Mississippi" (sometimes called Go Mis-sis-sip-pi)	1962

-	"Missouri Waltz"	melody: John V. Eppel arranged: Frederic K. Logan	J.R. Shannon	1949

-	"Montana"	1945

State ballad: "Montana Melody"	1983 [2]

-	Official: "Beautiful Nebraska"	Jim Fras and Guy Miller	1967

-	"Home Means Nevada"	Bertha Rafetto	1933

-	Official: "Old New Hampshire"	1949 1977

Official: "Live Free or Die"	Barry Palmer	2007

Honorary: "New Hampshire, My New Hampshire"	1963

Honorary: "New Hampshire Hills"	1973

Honorary: "Autumn in New Hampshire"	1977

Honorary: "New Hampshire's Granite State"	1977

Honorary: "Oh, New Hampshire"	1977

Honorary: "The Old Man of the Mountain"	1977

Honorary: "The New Hampshire State March"	1977

Honorary: "New Hampshire Naturally"	1983

-	None	N/A	N/A

-	State song: "O Fair New Mexico"	Elizabeth Garrett	1917

Spanish state song: "Así Es Nuevo Méjico"	Amadeo Lucero	1971

State ballad: "Land of Enchantment"	1989

Bilingual song: "New Mexico – Mi Lindo Nuevo México"	Elizabeth Garrett	1995

State cowboy song: "Under New Mexico Skies"	Syd Masters	2009

-	"I Love New York"	Steve Karmen	1977

-	"The Old North State"	1927

-	"North Dakota Hymn"	1947

-	"Beautiful Ohio"	Mary Earl	Ballard MacDonald (1969) Wilbert McBride (1989)	1969

Rock song: "Hang On Sloopy"	The McCoys	1985

-	Official state song: "Oklahoma"	Rodgers and Hammerstein	1953

Official state waltz: "Oklahoma Wind"	1982

State Folk Song: "Oklahoma Hills"	Woody Guthrie and Jack Guthrie	2001

Official state children's song: "Oklahoma, My Native Land"	Martha Kemm Barrett	1996

Official state gospel song: "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"	Wallis Willis	2011

-	"Oregon, My Oregon"	J.A. Buchanan and Henry B. Murtaghin	1927

-	"Pennsylvania"	1990

-	State march: "Rhode Island"	1996

State song: "Rhode Island, It's for Me"	1996

-	"Carolina"	Anne Curtis Burgess	Henry Timrod G.R. Goodwin (editor)	1911

"South Carolina on My Mind"	Hank Martin and Buzz Arledge	1984

-	"Hail, South Dakota!"	DeeCort Hammitt	1943

-	"My Homeland, Tennessee"	Roy Lamont Smith	Nell Grayson Taylor	1925

"When It's Iris Time in Tennessee"	Willa Waid Newman	1935

"My Tennessee"	Frances Hannah Tranum	1955

"Tennessee Waltz"	Pee Wee King	Redd Stewart	1965

"Rocky Top"	Boudleaux Bryant / Felice Bryant	1982

"Tennessee"	Vivian Rorie	1992

"The Pride of Tennessee"	Fred Congdon / Thomas Vaughn / Carol Elliot	1996

"A Tennessee Bicentennial Rap: 1796-1996"	Joan Hill Hanks	1996

"Smoky Mountain Rain"	Kye Fleming Dennis Morgan	2010

"Tennessee"	John R. Bean	2012

-	"Texas, Our Texas"	William J. Marsh	William J. Marsh and Gladys Yoakum Wright	1929

-	State song: "Utah…This Is The Place"	Sam and Gary Francis	2003

State hymn: "Utah, We Love Thee" (State Song 1937-2003)	Evan Stephens	2003

-	"These Green Mountains"	Diane Martin (composer) Rita Buglass Gluck (arranger)	Diane Martin	1999

-	Traditional state song: "Our Great Virginia"	Jim Papoulis (arranger), based on "Oh Shenandoah"	Mike Greenly	2015

Popular state song: "Sweet Virginia Breeze"	Steve Bassett and Robbin Thompson	2015

Emeritus state song: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (retired as official song in 1998)	James A. Bland	1940

-	State song: "Washington, My Home"	Stuart Churchill (arranger)	Helen Davis	1959

State folk song: "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On"	based on "Goodnight, Irene"	Woody Guthrie	1987

Unofficial state rock song: "Louie Louie"	Richard Berry	Richard Berry	unofficial

-	Official state song: "The West Virginia Hills"	Henry Everett Engle	Ellen Ruddell King	1963

Official state song: "This Is My West Virginia"	Iris Bell	Iris Bell	1963

Official state song: "West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home"	Julian G. Hearne, Jr.	Julian G. Hearne, Jr.	1963

Official state song: "Take Me Home, Country Roads"	John Denver Bill Danoff Taffy Nivert	2014

-	State song: "On, Wisconsin!"	William T. Purdy	Charles D. Rosa and J. S. Hubbard	1959

State ballad: "Oh Wisconsin, Land of My Dreams"	Shari A. Sarazin	Erma Barrett	2001

State waltz: "The Wisconsin Waltz"	Eddie Hansen	Eddie Hansen	2001

-	State March: "Wyoming"	George Edwin Knapp	Charles E. Winter	1955

State Song: "Wyoming Where I Belong"	Annie & Amy Smith	Annie & Amy Smith	2018

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In April 1979, "Georgia on My Mind" was proclaimed the state song of Georgia and was performed by Ray Charles.

final_sentence: In April 1979, "Georgia on My Mind" was proclaimed the state song of Georgia and was performed by Ray Charles.