List of U.S. state songs

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Forty-eight of the fifty states in the United States have one or more state songs, a type of regional anthem, which are selected by each state legislature as a symbol (or emblem) of that particular state. 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 of the same name), 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.

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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. Tennessee has the most state songs, with 12 official state songs and an official bicentennial rap.

Two individuals, Stephen Foster and John Denver, have written or co-written state songs for two different states. Foster wrote the music and lyrics for "My Old Kentucky Home", adopted by Kentucky in 1928, and "Old Folks at Home" (better known as "Swanee Ribber" or "Suwannee River"), adopted by Florida in 1935. [1] John Denver wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the music for "Rocky Mountain High", adopted by Colorado in 2007 as one of the state's two official state songs, [2] and co-wrote both lyrics and music for "Take Me Home, Country Roads", adopted by West Virginia in 2014 as one of four official state songs. [3] Additionally, Woody Guthrie wrote or co-wrote two state folk songs – "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" (Washington) and "Oklahoma Hills" (Oklahoma) – but they have separate status from the official state songs of both states.

New Mexico has two state songs in Spanish: "Así Es Nuevo México" is the official Spanish state song, while "New Mexico - Mi Lindo Nuevo Mexico" is the state bilingual song.

Iowa's "The Song of Iowa" uses the tune from the song "O Tannenbaum" as its melody. [4] The same tune is used for "Maryland, My Maryland" which was Maryland's state song from 1939 to 2021.

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]

Absences and removals

New Jersey has never adopted a state song. [5] [6] A resolution to declare the song "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen as the state song passed the Assembly, but failed the state Senate as the song's lyrics depict a desire to leave New Jersey. [7] [8]

Oklahoma's state "rock song" from 2009 to 2011 was "Do You Realize??" by The Flaming Lips, but the state legislature vote was not ratified. [9] [10] The move might have purportedly been due to offensive lyrics and a band member wearing of communist symbols on a shirt. [11]

Maryland had a state song until 2021. "Maryland, My Maryland" was removed due to pro-Confederate language, but no replacement was established. [12]

Virginia's previous state song, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", adopted in 1940, [1] was rescinded in 1997 due to language deemed racist by the Virginia General Assembly. [13] In 2015, "Our Great Virginia" was made the new state song of Virginia. [14]

In 2021, Louisiana made "You Are My Sunshine" their only official state song by removing the less-popular "Give Me Louisiana". "You Are My Sunshine" is so beloved by Louisiana residents that many of them, including state legislators, were unaware that a second official song existed prior to the proposed removal. "Southern Nights" was added at the same time as the removal, but given a new designation as a state cultural song. [15]

State songs

StateState songComposer(s)Lyricist(s)Year adopted
Flag of Alabama.svg Alabama"Alabama"Edna Gockel Gussen Julia S. Tutwiler 1931 [1] [16]
Flag of Alaska.svg Alaska"Alaska's Flag"Elinor Dusenbury Marie Drake 1955 [1] [17]
Flag of Arizona.svg ArizonaState song: "Arizona" Rex Allen and Rex Allen, Jr. Rex Allen and Rex Allen, Jr.1981 [1] [18]
State anthem: "Arizona March Song"Maurice BlumenthalMargaret Rowe Clifford1919 [1] [18]
Flag of Arkansas.svg ArkansasState anthem: "Arkansas"Eva Ware BarnettEva Ware Barnett1917/1987 [1] [19]
"Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me)" Wayland Holyfield Wayland Holyfield1987 [1] [19]
"Oh, Arkansas"Terry Rose and Gary KlaffTerry Rose and Gary Klaff1987 [1] [19]
State historic song: "Arkansas Traveler" Sandford C. Faulkner State Song Selection Committee1949/1987 [1] [19]
Flag of California.svg California"I Love You, California"Abraham F. FrankensteinF. B. Silverwood1951 [1]
Flag of Colorado.svg Colorado"Where the Columbines Grow"A.J. Fynn1915 [1] [20] [21]
"Rocky Mountain High" John Denver and Mike TaylorJohn Denver2007 [20] [22]
Flag of Connecticut.svg ConnecticutState song: "Yankee Doodle"1978 [23] [24]
Second state song: "Beautiful Connecticut Waltz"Joseph Leggo2013 [23] [24]
State cantata: "The Nutmeg"Stanley L. Ralph2003 [23] [24]
State polka: "Ballroom Polka"Ray Henry2013 [24] [25]
Flag of Delaware.svg Delaware"Our Delaware"Will M. S. Brown George Beswick Hynson 1925 [1]
Flag of Florida.svg FloridaOfficial song: "Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)" (with revised lyrics) Stephen Foster Original: Stephen Foster
Adapted: Stephen Foster Memorial at the University of Pittsburgh 		1935 (original lyrics) [1]
2008 (revised lyrics) [26]
Official poem: "I Am Florida"Walter "Clyde" OrangeAllen Autry Sr.2013 [27] [28]
State anthem: "Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky)"Jan Hinton2008 [29]
Flag of Georgia (U.S. state).svg Georgia"Georgia on My Mind", sung by Ray Charles Hoagy Carmichael Stuart Gorrell 1979 [1]
Flag of Hawaii.svg HawaiiState anthem: "Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī" Henri Berger King David Kalākaua 1967 [1] [30]
Flag of Idaho.svg Idaho"Here We Have Idaho"Sallie Hume DouglasMcKinley Helm and Albert J. Tompkins1931 [1]
Flag of Illinois.svg Illinois"Illinois"Archibald JohnstonCharles H. Chamberlain1925 [31]
Flag of Indiana.svg Indiana"On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" Paul Dresser 1913 [1]
Flag of Iowa.svg Iowa"The Song of Iowa" Melchior Franck S. H. M. Byers 1911 [1]
Official Companion State Song: "Make Me a World in Iowa"Effie Burt2002 [1] [32]
Flag of Kansas.svg Kansas"Home on the Range" Daniel E. Kelley Brewster M. Higley 1947 [1] [33]
Official state march: "The Kansas March"1935 [1]
Official march: "Here's Kansas"1992 [1]
Flag of Kentucky.svg KentuckyState song: "My Old Kentucky Home" Stephen Foster 1928 [1]
Bluegrass song: "Blue Moon of Kentucky" Bill Monroe 1988 [1] [34]
Flag of Louisiana.svg Louisiana"You Are My Sunshine" Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell 1977 [1]
State march: "Louisiana My Home Sweet Home" [35] Castro CarazoSammie McKenzie and Lou Levoy1952 [1]
State environmental song: "The Gifts of Earth" [36] Frances LeBeau1990 [37]
State cultural song: "Southern Nights" [38] Allen Toussaint 2021 [38]
Flag of Maine.svg MaineState song: State of Maine Roger Vinton SnowRoger Vinton Snow1937 [1]
State ballad: Ballad of the 20th Maine The Ghost of Paul Revere Griffin Sherry2019
Flag of Maryland.svg MarylandNone [12] N/AN/AN/A
Flag of Massachusetts.svg MassachusettsState anthem: "All Hail to Massachusetts"Arthur J. Marsh1981 [1] [39]
State folk song: "Massachusetts" Arlo Guthrie 1981 [1] [40]
State ceremonial march: "The Road to Boston"Unknown1985 [1] [41]
State patriotic song: "Massachusetts (Because of You Our Land is Free)"Bernard Davidson1989 [1] [42]
State glee club song: "The Great State of Massachusetts"J. Earl Bley George A. Wells 1997 [1] [43]
State polka: "Say Hello to Someone from Massachusetts" Lenny Gomulka [44] 1998 [45]
State ode: "Ode to Massachusetts"Joseph Falzone2000 [1] [46]
Flag of Michigan.svg MichiganAn official state song: "My Michigan"H. O'Reilly ClintGiles Kavanaugh1937 [1]
Flag of Minnesota.svg Minnesota"Hail! Minnesota"Truman Rickard Cyrus Northrop 1945 [1]
Flag of Mississippi.svg Mississippi"Mississippi"Bonita Crowe1916 [47] [48] [49]
"Go, Mississippi" William Houston Davis 1962
"One Mississippi" Steve Azar 2022 [1]
Flag of Missouri.svg Missouri"Missouri Waltz"melody: John V. Eppel
arranged: Frederic K. Logan		J.R. Shannon1949 [1]
Flag of Montana.svg Montana"Montana" Joseph E. Howard Charles Cohan1945 [1]
State ballad: "Montana Melody"1983 [1]
State lullaby: "Montana Lullaby"2007 [50]
Flag of Nebraska.svg NebraskaOfficial: "Beautiful Nebraska"Jim FrasJim Fras and Guy Miller1967 [1] [51]
Flag of Nevada.svg Nevada"Home Means Nevada" Bertha Rafetto 1933 [1]
Flag of New Hampshire.svg New HampshireOfficial: "Old New Hampshire"Maurice HoffmanJohn F. Holmes1949 [1]
1977
Official: "Live Free or Die"Barry Palmer2007
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] [52]
Flag of New Jersey.svg New JerseyNone [53] N/AN/AN/A
Flag of New Mexico.svg New MexicoState song: "O Fair New Mexico" Elizabeth Garrett 1917 [1]
Spanish state song: "Así Es Nuevo México"Amadeo Lucero1971 [1]
State ballad: "Land of Enchantment"Michael Martin Murphey, Don Cook, and Chick Rains1989 [1]
Bilingual song: "New Mexico – Mi Lindo Nuevo México"Pablo Mares1995 [1]
State cowboy song: "Under New Mexico Skies"Syd Masters2009
Flag of New York.svg New YorkState song: "I Love New York" Steve Karmen 1980 [54]
State hymn of remembrance: "Here Rests in Honored Glory"Donald B. Miller2018 [55] [56]
Flag of North Carolina.svg North Carolina"The Old North State"E.E. Randolph William Gaston 1927 [1]
Flag of North Dakota.svg North Dakota"North Dakota Hymn"C. S. PutnamJames Folely1947 [1]
Flag of Ohio.svg Ohio"Beautiful Ohio"Mary EarlBallard MacDonald (1918)
Wilbert McBride (1989)		1969 [1] [57]
Rock song: "Hang On Sloopy" Wes Farrell and Bert Berns 1985 [1] [58]
Flag of Oklahoma.svg OklahomaOfficial state song: "Oklahoma" Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II 1953 [1] [59]
Official state waltz: "Oklahoma Wind"1982 [1]
State Folk Song: "Oklahoma Hills" Woody Guthrie and Jack Guthrie 2001 [60] [61]
Official state children's song: "Oklahoma, My Native Land"Martha Kemm Barrett1996 [62]
Official state gospel song: "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Wallis Willis 2011 [63]
Flag of Oregon.svg Oregon"Oregon, My Oregon"Henry Bernard Murtagh John Andrew Buchanan 1927 [1]
Flag of Pennsylvania.svg Pennsylvania"Pennsylvania"Eddie Khoury and Ronnie Bonner1990 [1]
“Pennsylvania” Gertrude Rohrer Gertrude Rohrer1960
Flag of Rhode Island.svg Rhode IslandState march: "Rhode Island"1996
State song: "Rhode Island, It's for Me"1996 [1]
Flag of South Carolina.svg South Carolina"Carolina"Anne Curtis Burgess Henry Timrod
G.R. Goodwin (editor)		1911 [1]
"South Carolina on My Mind"Hank Martin and Buzz Arledge1984 [1]
"Richardson Waltz"unknown2000 [64]
Flag of South Dakota.svg South Dakota"Hail, South Dakota!"DeeCort Hammitt1943 [1]
Flag of Tennessee.svg Tennessee"My Homeland, Tennessee"Roy Lamont SmithNell Grayson Taylor1925 [65]
"When It's Iris Time in Tennessee"Willa Waid Newman1935 [1] [65]
"My Tennessee"Frances Hannah Tranum1955 [65]
"Tennessee Waltz" Pee Wee King Redd Stewart 1965 [1] [65]
"Rocky Top" Felice and Boudleaux Bryant 1982 [1] [65]
"Tennessee"Vivian Rorie1992 [65]
"The Pride of Tennessee"Fred Congdon, Thomas Vaughn, and Carol Elliot1996 [1] [65]
"A Tennessee Bicentennial Rap: 1796-1996"Joan Hill Hanks1996 [65]
"Smoky Mountain Rain" Kye Fleming
Dennis Morgan 		2010 [65] [66] [67]
"Tennessee"John R. Bean2012 [65]
"The Tennessee in Me"Debbie Matthas2023 [68]
"Copperhead Road" Steve Earle 2023 [68]
"Tennessee, In My Dreams" Makky Kaylor Makky Kaylor2024 [69]
"Under a Tennessee Moon" Kelly Lang 2024 [70]
Flag of Texas.svg Texas"Texas, Our Texas" William J. Marsh William J. Marsh and Gladys Yoakum Wright1929 [71] [72]
Flag of Utah.svg UtahState song: "Utah...This Is the Place"Sam and Gary Francis2003 [73]
State hymn: "Utah, We Love Thee"
(state song from 1937 to 2003) [74] 		Evan Stephens 2003 [1]
Flag of Vermont.svg Vermont"These Green Mountains"Diane Martin (composer)
Rita Buglass Gluck (arranger)		Diane Martin1999 [1] [75]
Flag of Virginia.svg VirginiaTraditional state song: "Our Great Virginia"Jim Papoulis (arranger), based on "Oh Shenandoah" Mike Greenly 2015 [14]
Popular state song: "Sweet Virginia Breeze"Steve Bassett and Robbin Thompson 2015 [14]
Emeritus state song: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (retired as official song in 1998) James A. Bland [76] 1940 [1] [13]
Flag of Washington.svg WashingtonState 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] [77]
Unofficial state rock song: "Louie Louie" Richard Berry Richard Berryunofficial [78]
Flag of West Virginia.svg West VirginiaOfficial state song: "The West Virginia Hills"Henry Everett EngleEllen Ruddell King1963 [1] [79]
Official state song: "This Is My West Virginia" Iris Bell Iris Bell1963 [1] [79]
Official state song: "West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home"Julian G. Hearne, Jr.Julian G. Hearne, Jr.1963 [1] [79]
Official state song: "Take Me Home, Country Roads" John Denver, Bill Danoff, and Taffy Nivert 2014 [80]
Flag of Wisconsin.svg WisconsinState song: "On, Wisconsin!"William T. Purdy Charles D. Rosa and J. S. Hubbard1959 [1] [81]
State ballad: "Oh Wisconsin, Land of My Dreams"Shari A. SarazinErma Barrett2001 [1] [81]
State waltz: "The Wisconsin Waltz"Eddie HansenEddie Hansen2001 [1] [81]
Flag of Wyoming.svg WyomingState song: "Wyoming"George Edwin Knapp Charles E. Winter 1955 [1] [82]
State song: "Wyoming Where I Belong"Annie & Amy SmithAnnie & Amy Smith2018 [1] [83]

Federal district songs

Federal districtSongComposer(s)Lyricist(s)Year adopted
Flag of Washington, D.C.svg Washington, D.C.Song: "Washington" Jimmie Dodd 1951 [84]
March: "Our Nation's Capital" Anthony A. Mitchell 1961 [84]

Territory songs

TerritorySongComposer(s)Lyricist(s)Year adopted
Flag of American Samoa.svg American Samoa"Amerika Samoa" Napoleon Andrew Tuiteleleapaga Mariota Tiumalu Tuiasosopo 1950
Flag of Guam.svg Guam"Stand Ye Guamanians"Ramon Manalisay SablanRamon Manalisay Sablan
Lagrimas Untalan (translation)		1919
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Northern Mariana Islands"Gi Talo Gi Halom Tasi" Wilhelm Ganzhorn David Kapileo Taulamwaar Peter
Jose and Joaqin Pangelinan		1996
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico"La Borinqueña" Félix Astol Artés Manuel Fernández Juncos 1977
Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg United States Virgin Islands"Virgin Islands March"Sam Williams and Alton Adams 1963

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