Song
A song is taught to many elementary school children across the state, entitled the Maine County Song, to aid in memorizing the names of the state's 16 counties. It is sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle.
- Sixteen counties has our state
- Cumberland and Franklin
- Piscataquis and Kennebec
- Oxford, Androscoggin
- Waldo, Washington, and York
- Lincoln, Knox, and Hancock
- Sagadahoc and Somerset
- Aroostook and Penobscot
An alternate version as put forth by the Maine Secretary of State's Kids' Page:
- The sixteen counties in our state
- Are Cumberland and Franklin
- Piscataquis and Somerset
- Aroostook, Androscoggin
- Sagadahoc and Kennebec
- Lincoln, Knox and Hancock
- Waldo, Washington and York
- Oxford and Penobscot
However the traditional version is:
- Sixteen counties in our state
- are Cumberland and Franklin
- Waldo York Piscataquis
- Oxford and Androscoggin
- Washington and Somerset
- Lincoln Knox and Hancock
- Kennebec Sagadahoc
- Aroostook and Penobscot
Read more about this topic: List Of Counties In Maine
Famous quotes containing the word song:
“There’s something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
“By a knight of ghosts and shadows
I summon’d am to a tourney
Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end:
Methinks it is no journey.”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 57–60)