"Ode to Massachusetts", words and music by Joseph Falzone, was designated the official ode of Massachusetts on November 16, 2000.
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“I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.”
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“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”
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