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:
“You praised and knew
the song they made was worthless
and the note,
they sung
was dross.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Song of Solomon 2:10-13.
“Marlowe went muttering to death
When he had done with song and lust.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)