What would a country be without a flag and a national anthem? Official songs are hardly limited to countries, though.
United States ˆ
Every state but New Jersey has at least one official song, generally known as the “state song.” However, a few states designate their favorite songs the official “anthem.”
On this site, these “primary state songs” are classified with flags and mottoes as symbols of state.
However, many states have additional official songs that might be more correctly classified as cultural symbols.
The table below lists primary state songs only. As time allows, I’ll add a second table listing the remaining state songs.
| List of State Songs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| State | Song | Designation | |
| Alabama | Alabama | 1931 | |
| Alaska | Alaska’s Flag | 1955 | |
| Arizona | Arizona March Song | Anthem | 1919 |
| Arizona | Arizona | Alternate Anthem | 1981 |
| Arkansas | Arkansas | Anthem | 1987 |
| Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me) | 1987 | ||
| Oh, Arkansas | 1987 | ||
| California | I Love You, California | 1951 | |
| Colorado | Where the Columbines Grow | 1915 | |
| Rocky Mountain High | 2007 | ||
| Connecticut | Yankee Doodle | 1978 | |
| Delaware | Our Delaware | 1925 | |
| Florida | The Swanee River (Old Folks at Home) | 1935 | |
| Georgia | Georgia on My Mind | 1979 | |
| Hawaii | Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī | Anthem | 1967 |
| Idaho | Here We Have Idaho | 1931 | |
| Illinois | Illinois | 1925 | |
| Indiana | On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away | 1913 | |
| Iowa | The Song of Iowa | 1911 | |
| Kansas | Home on the Range | 1947 | |
| Kentucky | My Old Kentucky Home | 1986 | |
| Louisiana | Give Me Lousiana | 1970 | |
| Maine | State of Maine Song | 1937 | |
| Maryland | Maryland, My Maryland | 1939 | |
| Massachusetts | All Hail to Massachusetts | 1981 | |
| Michigan | My Michigan | 1937 | |
| Minnesota | Hail! Minnesota! | 1945 | |
| Mississippi | Go, Mississippi | 1962 | |
| Missouri | Missouri Waltz | 1949 | |
| Montana | Montana | 1945 | |
| Nebraska | Beautiful Nebraska | 1967 | |
| Nevada | Home Means Nevada | 1933 | |
| New Hampshire | Old New Hampshire | 1949 | |
| New Mexico | O’ Fair New Mexico | 1917 | |
| New York | I Love New York | 2009 | |
| North Carolina | The Old North State | 1927 | |
| North Dakota | North Dakota Hymn | 1947 | |
| Ohio | Beautiful Ohio | 1969 | |
| Oklahoma | Oklahoma | Anthem | 1953 |
| Oregon | Oregon, My Oregon | 1927 | |
| Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 1990 | |
| Rhode Island | Rhode Island’s It For Me | 1996 | |
| South Carolina | Carolina | 1911 | |
| South Carolina on My Mind | 1984 | ||
| South Dakota | Hail, South Dakota | 1943 | |
| Tennessee | My Homeland, Tennessee | 1925 | |
| Texas | Texas, Our Texas | 1929 | |
| Utah | Utah, This is the Place | 2003 | |
| Vermont | These Green Mountains | 2000 | |
| Virginia | Carry Me Back to Old Virginia | Song Emeritus | 1997 |
| Washington | Washington, My Home | 1959 | |
| West Virginia | West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home | 1963 | |
| Wisconsin | On, Wisconsin | 1959 | |
| Wyoming | Wyoming | 1955 | |
Canada ˆ
| List of Provincial Songs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Province | Song | Designation | |
| Alberta | Alberta | Anthem | 2001 |
| Newfoundland | Ode to Newfoundland | Anthem | |
| Nova Scotia | Farewell to Nova Scotia | Song | |
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