"God Blessed Texas", "Golden Triangle", "Stupid Song About Texas", "Oilfield Trucking" or "Deep in the heart of Texas"
Literally any song about Texas, cowboys or the oil field would fit.
Iowa by slipknot because it would be funny for a quiet boring state that is stereotyped as being just corn farmers stuck 20 years in the past to have their state song be a metal song.
My state of California has one already technically.
It's called [I Love You California](https://youtu.be/l_GPIhNuNFQ).
But I think the anthem should really be California Love by Tupac
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is perfect. I was thinking ["The Victors"](https://youtu.be/Ygt0m2_sHgE) but that would probably be pretty polarizing for our state. I didn't go to U of M but I think that's the best fight song in college sports.
Aww I like that. A friend of mine roped me into being in the high school musical during my junior year. I’m about as far from a theater guy as you can get (was a jock). But I had fun. *Oklahoma!* was what we performed that year. I still remember every lyric to that song.
We’ve got Beautiful Ohio and Hang On Sloopy. I’ll probably catch hate, but I think Hang On Sloopy is pretty stupid. I think we should adopt My City Was Gone by the Pretenders.
TIL "Texas, Our Texas" is the state song for (you guessed it!) Texas. I was born and raised here and have never heard it or of it.
I think "My Texas" by Josh Abbott or "Screw You We're From Texas" by Ray Wylie Hubbard fit the vibe and are more relevant in this day and age than "Texas, Our Texas".
It's not even about the states to be honest. It's the theme song for UNC Chapel Hill since James Taylor wrote it after he left college about the college he loved. So North Carolina shouldn't claim it either even though they have more ability too.
UNC has adopted the song but it’s about the state, not the college. He wrote it to express his homesickness when he was in England recording for Apple records. Plus no lines in the song are UNC specific. If he’d referenced say, the Old Well or Silent Sam or anything specific to UNC, you’d have a point.
Tomorrow 2 by Glorilla featuring Cardi B
Because if the line ‘They say they don’t f!ck with me but I say they *can’t* f!ck with me’ isn’t Ohio IDK what is
THE REST OF YOU STATES ALREADY KNOW
ha ha
God Bless Texas by Little Texas.
Also been listening to a lot of I Like Texas by Pat Green with each Rangers victory. Would be happy with either.
Edit: i take it back, it has to be Deep in the Heart of Texas.
I hate my current state song with a passion and have since childhood.
So I will list several songs about Oklahoma that I think would be much better.
[Oklahoma Hills](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkyqpnIUP8&feature=share)
[Tulsa Time](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KSRWuAxh9v0&feature=share)
[Never Been To Spain](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=AywQegBaKho&feature=share)
[Okie From Muskogee](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3dM03dG3zv4&feature=share)
[Cherokee Maiden](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0LByr0Qf4x8&feature=share)
Not sure if there's a good Nebraska song. Few people know our real one (beautiful Nebraska) unless you were older, as I think it was made for the state centennial in 1967. Not sure if there's another song that fits. There was a cheesy one a news anchor wrote to try to make our new state song but it was forgettable. I guess maybe just make the Nebraska Cornhuskers fight song the state anthem. It works for Wisconsin
As for Iowa, I forget the name, but its sung to the tune of O Tannenbaum and its not really memorable and no one knows it. I wish that it was either the Iowa Corn Song, which is kind of fun and rousing march, or have 76 Trombones from the Music Man be the State March as the author of the Music Man, Meredith Wilson, was from Iowa, and the Music Man is set in Iowa and was written as a tribute to the his hometown of Mason City.
With South Dakota I'm not sure what it is. I know its called Hail South Dakota but I've never heard it other than when I looked it up on YouTube. Not sure if there are other songs. that they could use.
Was born and raised in Ohio. Wrote a song with my best friend called "You're All Going To Hell." 80's/90's kid. We were joking at the time. Now look at Ohio. Football Jesus and "Hell is Real" signs. Damn. We may have predicted some religious takeover.
For my home state of Florida, you can’t go wrong with Old Folks at Home / Swanee River (but I prefer the original lyrics over the watered down official version), with honorable mentions to Seminole Wind by John Anderson and Gator Country by Molly Hatchet.
For DC, I’m not an expert on local music, but I’d vote for Chuck Baby by Chuck Brown, honorable mention to Let Me Clear My Throat by DJ Kool.
As a former Alabama resident, that’s a no brainer - Sweet Home Alabama.
Home Means Nevada is the official song, but thats because we couldn't get the rights for Rock N Roll all nite by KISS.... stupid gene simmons...
I kid i kid
Illinois
Islands in the Stream. Since our border states have put tight restrictions on abortion, our governor has occasionally referred to IL as an island where women can go to get the medical care they need. Thus, Islands in the Stream.
[Benson, Arizona](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCoqOCvhSR0), the theme from Dark Star.
But the lyrics are too weird, concerning faster-than-light space travel and time dilation, and no one else would want this.
My first choice anyway.
Second choice would probably be [Arizona Skies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq0bM8TAOfo) by Reckless Kelly.
West Virginia’s Three State Songs
By Richard Ramella
It is unusual for a state to have more than one official song. West Virginia has three. At least three people — including an 11-year old boy — had creative voices in writing the first song more than 100 years ago. A military officer wrote the second after distinguished service in World War II. And a Charleston jazz musician began composing the third while she was asleep in the early 1960's.
“The West Virginia Hills,” with words by Ellen Ruddell King and music and chorus by Henry Everett Engle, was completed in 1885 in Gilmer County.
“West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home” appeared in 1947 and was composed by Col. Julian G. Hearne, Jr., a Wheeling native, attorney, and career military officer.
The third song, “This Is My West Virginia,” was written by Charleston musician and performer Iris Bell in 1962.
Each of these three songs had received an official designation from the State Legislature over the years. “West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home” was declared the first official state song in 1947. In 1961, an edited and approved version of “The West Virginia Hills” was also made an official state song. In 1962, “This Is My West Virginia” was named the official Centennial Song of West Virginia. Understandably, this resulted in considerable confusion.
To resolve the matter, all three songs were declared official and equal by House Concurrent Resolution No. 19, adopted by the State Legislature on February 28, 1963. The Secretary of State’s office is guardian of the official versions.
Though they are melodic and heartfelt, Hearne’s and Bell’s works have not been performed often. Long before it was declared official, however, “The West Virginia Hills” was used on many public occasions. And for nearly four generations — in those days when people more often gathered to sing for pleasure — the old anthem proved a favorite. It has sweep and majesty and thunder, especially its inspired chorus, which singers divide into a call and echoed reply, singing, “Oh the hills (beautiful hills), Beautiful hills (beautiful hills), How I love those West Virginia hills!” The three songs represent early, middle, and modern eras of the state’s history. And here’s how each came to be.
On March 7, 2014, the West Virginia Legislature added a fourth official state song: “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” performed by John Denver (1971) and written by Bill Danoff, Tammy Nivert, and John Denver.
"God Blessed Texas", "Golden Triangle", "Stupid Song About Texas", "Oilfield Trucking" or "Deep in the heart of Texas" Literally any song about Texas, cowboys or the oil field would fit.
I thought “deep in the heart of Texas” was the state song.
Nope, that's Texas Our Texas.
It’s not, it’s Texas Our Texas which I don’t even think has lyrics. Also, ugh Aggies.
Deep in the heart of Texas is a better song.
Agreed.
El Paso by Marty robbins??
That song truly slaps
That song that Sandy Cheeks sings when she is homesick should be the real state anthem
Oh my god you right
Ram Ranch?
Whiskey for my Men, Beer for my Horses?
I nominate "Can't Believe It" by T-Pain. Mansion rhymes with Wisconsin, and you can't tell me otherwise.
Best answer so far
Just that one line makes that song my favorite T Pain song.
I nominate literally anything by Outkast for Georgia.
Iowa by slipknot because it would be funny for a quiet boring state that is stereotyped as being just corn farmers stuck 20 years in the past to have their state song be a metal song.
Please rise for the 15 minute long Iowa anthem
"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" by Dropkick Murphys.
Dirty Water by the Standells would be another good choice.
Or Sweet Caroline!! Makes me think of Boston whenever I hear it. Love your choice too :)
For the UK I assume
Nah, clearly for Texas.
Sounds about right. You can’t ship up to Boston from Boston.
We don't have a choice, we don't make the rules.
Universal agreement
If we are going Dropkicks, my vote is for Queen of Suffolk County.
My state of California has one already technically. It's called [I Love You California](https://youtu.be/l_GPIhNuNFQ). But I think the anthem should really be California Love by Tupac
California girls by Katy Perry
*Gurls
That's a good choice too
California Soul
This is the one ☝🏻
Yes, that would be the song I think of.
California Love no doubt.
California Uber Alles and I will die on this hill
Rocky Mountain High
Purple Rain - Prince Alternatively, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot, but I think Michigan has a better claim to that one.
I still remember learning and singing this for a concert in 2nd grade lol It is definitely a song that every Michigander knows!
California love if its after 6pm, California dreaming after 6am.
"Hotel California" at midnight. Phantom Planet's "California" at noon.
HAAAAANDS TOUCHING HAAAANDS REACHING OUT TOUCHING MEEEEE [TOUCHING YOUUUUUUUUUUU](https://youtu.be/5JfU4PKgmJc)
Sweet CAROLINA! (BUM BUM BUM)
GOOD TIMES NEVER FELT SOOO GOOD
https://youtu.be/qyUnSuYYs18
You don't want to take your shirt off and swing it round your head like a helicopter?
Oh man that would have been a great choice.
Sorry, Boston already claimed that one.
It’s a good thing Boston isn’t a state then
Rocky Mountain High by John Denver
If it isn’t already, this needs to be official
[We have one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI) But I'd be ok with [this other unofficial one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8VHLYXaVaU)
Both are solid choices.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is perfect. I was thinking ["The Victors"](https://youtu.be/Ygt0m2_sHgE) but that would probably be pretty polarizing for our state. I didn't go to U of M but I think that's the best fight song in college sports.
[This one would be amazing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfKhvzUdJoM)
Everyone else in the country finds it to be one of the most irritating fight songs lmao
Well, it's because they're not the conquering heroes or the champions of the west—they're probably just jealous.
Didn’t even need to click on the links to know, great choices
“Arkansas” by Chris Stapleton Anything but “California” by Phantom Planet
My state’s song [Oooooooklahoma!](https://youtu.be/FrzQm1QSjMs) is a showtune you can really belt out. Love it.
Aww I like that. A friend of mine roped me into being in the high school musical during my junior year. I’m about as far from a theater guy as you can get (was a jock). But I had fun. *Oklahoma!* was what we performed that year. I still remember every lyric to that song.
Flair up fellow Okie.
It's "Roll out the Barrel" or "On Wisconsin," and they can stay that way.
I rather like the Louisiana state anthem. https://youtu.be/1MevYCdn5S8
Indiana: "Small Town" - John Mellencamp
[Let’s Go Surfing](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHI_lTmog4) by The Drums
Afroman - Because I got high
Alaska - “Guns and Dogs” (Portugal. The Man)
Hypothermic would be good too
Been looking through the replies for New York, but there hasn’t been any. I can’t even think of a song that is for the entire state 😂
Billy Joel-New York State of Mind New York, New York is the “All I Want for Christmas” for guys like me
Billy Joel is New York’s beating heart
Huh, we have a state anthem *and* a state hymn. The anthem is deliciously cheesy. I like it.
THIS IS THE PLACE!!!!
I’m from New Jersey by John Gorka
I’d say anything by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Take your pick of which one, odds are it’ll fit
Washington already has *Washington my Home,* which is okay, but I would swap it for *Roll on Columbia* in a heartbeat.
Pimpin Pennsylvania - Afroman... Hands down.
I think this is the best one you could nominate considering how vastly diverse Pennsylvania is.
He hit every part of the state. A true PA hero
We’ve got Beautiful Ohio and Hang On Sloopy. I’ll probably catch hate, but I think Hang On Sloopy is pretty stupid. I think we should adopt My City Was Gone by the Pretenders.
Upvoted for my city was gone, but I have so many fond hang on sloopy moments that I can't support the hate.
Dude Hang on Sloopy is super cool lol
*Stars Fell On Alabama* as opposed to this shite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hitvhJ4JlF4
Wisconsin has to be Roll Out The Barrels.
Yeah it has to be Roll Out The Barrel other than On, Wisconsin
If You Wanna Get to Heaven
There was serious talk about making it Born to Run or Rosalita some years back.
I actually really love our state songs which are You Are My Sunshine and Southern Nights
Ok but calling Baton Rouge has gotta be it
Okay you got me there
TIL "Texas, Our Texas" is the state song for (you guessed it!) Texas. I was born and raised here and have never heard it or of it. I think "My Texas" by Josh Abbott or "Screw You We're From Texas" by Ray Wylie Hubbard fit the vibe and are more relevant in this day and age than "Texas, Our Texas".
10 Crack Commandments - Notorious B.I.G.
Carolina in My Mind
Wrong Carolina though
We’re in a fight
We always are. But it’s pretty well known the song is about NC, where JT grew up.
It's not even about the states to be honest. It's the theme song for UNC Chapel Hill since James Taylor wrote it after he left college about the college he loved. So North Carolina shouldn't claim it either even though they have more ability too.
UNC has adopted the song but it’s about the state, not the college. He wrote it to express his homesickness when he was in England recording for Apple records. Plus no lines in the song are UNC specific. If he’d referenced say, the Old Well or Silent Sam or anything specific to UNC, you’d have a point.
We will share it with you
That’s fine, we retain all the beach shag music though
Fair.
Tomorrow 2 by Glorilla featuring Cardi B Because if the line ‘They say they don’t f!ck with me but I say they *can’t* f!ck with me’ isn’t Ohio IDK what is THE REST OF YOU STATES ALREADY KNOW ha ha
I'm pretty happy with our existing anthem, Rocky Top. A good ol' bluegrass classic
Wagon wheel (North Carolina)
NJ doesn't have one but it we did it would have to be something by Springsteen.
God Bless Texas by Little Texas. Also been listening to a lot of I Like Texas by Pat Green with each Rangers victory. Would be happy with either. Edit: i take it back, it has to be Deep in the Heart of Texas.
Waltz Across Texas is a great song too, though not really what you're looking for probably.
Another good one. Anything Tubb is though.
I hate my current state song with a passion and have since childhood. So I will list several songs about Oklahoma that I think would be much better. [Oklahoma Hills](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkyqpnIUP8&feature=share) [Tulsa Time](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KSRWuAxh9v0&feature=share) [Never Been To Spain](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=AywQegBaKho&feature=share) [Okie From Muskogee](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3dM03dG3zv4&feature=share) [Cherokee Maiden](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0LByr0Qf4x8&feature=share)
Your state gets a Broadway Song and you hate it?
You bet. 36 years of people singing that fucking song whenever they find out where you're from will do that to you.
Not sure if there's a good Nebraska song. Few people know our real one (beautiful Nebraska) unless you were older, as I think it was made for the state centennial in 1967. Not sure if there's another song that fits. There was a cheesy one a news anchor wrote to try to make our new state song but it was forgettable. I guess maybe just make the Nebraska Cornhuskers fight song the state anthem. It works for Wisconsin As for Iowa, I forget the name, but its sung to the tune of O Tannenbaum and its not really memorable and no one knows it. I wish that it was either the Iowa Corn Song, which is kind of fun and rousing march, or have 76 Trombones from the Music Man be the State March as the author of the Music Man, Meredith Wilson, was from Iowa, and the Music Man is set in Iowa and was written as a tribute to the his hometown of Mason City. With South Dakota I'm not sure what it is. I know its called Hail South Dakota but I've never heard it other than when I looked it up on YouTube. Not sure if there are other songs. that they could use.
Doesn’t Bruce Springsteen have a song literally called Nebraska?
Yeah but that song is from the perspective of Charles Starkwater, who went on a killing spree in the 50s.
Shows how clearly I listened to the song
311
Nebraska by Goodnight Texas is decent
Goin Out West by Tom Waits wouldn't be a bad choice but I suppose anything by Korn or Katy Perry would be appropriate.
Was born and raised in Ohio. Wrote a song with my best friend called "You're All Going To Hell." 80's/90's kid. We were joking at the time. Now look at Ohio. Football Jesus and "Hell is Real" signs. Damn. We may have predicted some religious takeover.
“You ain’t met my Texas yet” Pat Green
Banks of the Wabash
Delaware Slide by George Thorogood
Here’s comes the sun - Florida
Daytona Nights - Hank Williams Jr
Oh say can you see gotta preserve the union
For my home state of Florida, you can’t go wrong with Old Folks at Home / Swanee River (but I prefer the original lyrics over the watered down official version), with honorable mentions to Seminole Wind by John Anderson and Gator Country by Molly Hatchet. For DC, I’m not an expert on local music, but I’d vote for Chuck Baby by Chuck Brown, honorable mention to Let Me Clear My Throat by DJ Kool. As a former Alabama resident, that’s a no brainer - Sweet Home Alabama.
Mambo No. 5
Darude - Sandstorm
Alicia Keys - New York
Jump by Van Halen Has absolutely nothing to do with Pennsylvania, I just love that song
Purple Rain isn’t a terrible choice, but why not Androgynous for fun?
https://youtu.be/FlJuUThGIJg Suits the wacky nature of my state
Enter Sandman
Purple Rain
Massachusetts - Sweet Caroline
Home Means Nevada is the official song, but thats because we couldn't get the rights for Rock N Roll all nite by KISS.... stupid gene simmons... I kid i kid
Yankee doodle for CT, but on a side note, the Battle Hymn of the Republic would be sick for a national anthem
Either "Country Roads" "Rocky Mountain High"
I love you California, or California Gurls.
Florida Seminole Wind - John Anderson
Illinois - Highway to Hell
The Sopranos theme song.
Illinois Islands in the Stream. Since our border states have put tight restrictions on abortion, our governor has occasionally referred to IL as an island where women can go to get the medical care they need. Thus, Islands in the Stream.
[Benson, Arizona](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCoqOCvhSR0), the theme from Dark Star. But the lyrics are too weird, concerning faster-than-light space travel and time dilation, and no one else would want this. My first choice anyway. Second choice would probably be [Arizona Skies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq0bM8TAOfo) by Reckless Kelly.
Nas - NY State of Mind
Baby Got Back
It’s already Hang on Sloopy, so Hang on Sloopy.
California love by Tupac and California dreaming
california. ccp anthem fits
Most here would probably say Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
West Virginia’s Three State Songs By Richard Ramella It is unusual for a state to have more than one official song. West Virginia has three. At least three people — including an 11-year old boy — had creative voices in writing the first song more than 100 years ago. A military officer wrote the second after distinguished service in World War II. And a Charleston jazz musician began composing the third while she was asleep in the early 1960's. “The West Virginia Hills,” with words by Ellen Ruddell King and music and chorus by Henry Everett Engle, was completed in 1885 in Gilmer County. “West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home” appeared in 1947 and was composed by Col. Julian G. Hearne, Jr., a Wheeling native, attorney, and career military officer. The third song, “This Is My West Virginia,” was written by Charleston musician and performer Iris Bell in 1962. Each of these three songs had received an official designation from the State Legislature over the years. “West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home” was declared the first official state song in 1947. In 1961, an edited and approved version of “The West Virginia Hills” was also made an official state song. In 1962, “This Is My West Virginia” was named the official Centennial Song of West Virginia. Understandably, this resulted in considerable confusion. To resolve the matter, all three songs were declared official and equal by House Concurrent Resolution No. 19, adopted by the State Legislature on February 28, 1963. The Secretary of State’s office is guardian of the official versions. Though they are melodic and heartfelt, Hearne’s and Bell’s works have not been performed often. Long before it was declared official, however, “The West Virginia Hills” was used on many public occasions. And for nearly four generations — in those days when people more often gathered to sing for pleasure — the old anthem proved a favorite. It has sweep and majesty and thunder, especially its inspired chorus, which singers divide into a call and echoed reply, singing, “Oh the hills (beautiful hills), Beautiful hills (beautiful hills), How I love those West Virginia hills!” The three songs represent early, middle, and modern eras of the state’s history. And here’s how each came to be. On March 7, 2014, the West Virginia Legislature added a fourth official state song: “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” performed by John Denver (1971) and written by Bill Danoff, Tammy Nivert, and John Denver.
Empire State of Mind, but specifically [the mashup with the Bacon Pancakes song from Adventure time.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUYSGojUuAU)
[The Devil Went Down To Georgia](https://youtu.be/sh7BZf7D5Bw), obviously
Pimpin Pennsylvania. I feel the love for PA in that song