State Songs
Ohio's official songs include:
Beautiful Ohio, by Ballard MacDonald (lyrics) and Mary Earl(music), was adopted as the official state song in 1989.
Hang on Sloopy, by Wes Farrell and Bert Russell, is the state's official Rock Song, adopted by the General Assembly in 1985. The song was never signed into law, but was enacted through House Concurrent Resolution 16, 116th General Assembly, 1985–1986 Session.
Read more about this topic: List Of Ohio State Symbols
Famous quotes containing the words state and/or songs:
“No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)