Florida state song

Crazy Navy Flyer · Post by **Crazy Navy Flyer** » December 11, 2007 4:19 pm

Found this in the Pensacola News Journal...informal poll.

Which song would you like to hear as the Florida state song?

Miami Vice theme...Jan Hammer 12.8%

Sweet Home Alabama..Lynard Skynard 7.4%

Conga... Miami Sound Machine 2.1%

Key Largo..Bertie Higgins 8.5%

Margaritaville...JB 69.1%

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » December 11, 2007 4:19 pm

Colorado's is "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » December 11, 2007 4:22 pm

Why would anyone want Sweet Home Alabama as the Florida state song?

M'ville would be cool.

Dally · Post by **Dally** » December 11, 2007 4:23 pm

How the hell did "Sweet Home Alabama" get any votes for Florida's state song??

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » December 11, 2007 4:23 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Why would anyone want Sweet Home Alabama as the Florida state song?

Have you ever spent any time on Fark.com?

pair8head · Post by **pair8head** » December 11, 2007 4:25 pm

Dally wrote:How the hell did "Sweet Home Alabama" get any votes for Florida's state song??

My thoughts exactly.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » December 11, 2007 4:27 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Why would anyone want Sweet Home Alabama as the Florida state song?

M'ville would be cool.

Maybe because Lynryd Skynyrd is (are?) from Jacksonville. That's the only reason I can think of.

Skibo · Post by **Skibo** » December 11, 2007 4:30 pm

Oh Canada should have been a choice.

pair8head · Post by **pair8head** » December 11, 2007 4:31 pm

The State of Washington years ago came very close to naming "Louie Louie" as it's official state song. Then someone realized we already had a state song a really lame one called "Washington My Home" written by a little old (about 200 years old it seemed) Lady who was still alive. An effort was made to change the legislation to Official State "Rock" song but it died.

Skibo · Post by **Skibo** » December 11, 2007 4:35 pm

Pennsylania was real creative. Our state song is....drum roll please....

Pennsylvania
Written and Composed by
Eddie Khoury and Ronnie Bonner

Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania,
Mighty is your name,
Steeped in glory and tradition,
Object of acclaim,
Where brave men fought the foe of freedom,
Tyranny decried,
'Til the bell of independence filled the countryside.

Chorus
Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania,
May your future be filled with honor everlasting as your history.

Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania,
Blessed by God's own hand,
Birthplace of a mighty nation,
Keystone of the land.
Where first our country's flag unfolded,
Freedom to proclaim,
May the voices of tomorrow glorify your name.

Chorus
Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania,
May your future be filled with honor everlasting as your history.

popcornjack · Post by **popcornjack** » December 11, 2007 4:36 pm

Currently I think the state song of Florida is "Swannee River" with it's chock full of racial insensitive lyrics. There was a legislator in Florida who was trying to make the new song "I Have Found Me a Home" earlier in the year.

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » December 11, 2007 4:37 pm

Seems like this came around a few months ago, didn't somebody try to push I Have Found Me a Home?

good choice, btw

beat me to it, Jack

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » December 11, 2007 4:47 pm

A few years ago a radio station tried to get New Jersey to make Born To Run the state song. Some politician decided a song with the line "it's a death trap, a suicide rap" wouldn't go over well.

surfpirate · Post by **surfpirate** » December 11, 2007 4:53 pm

popcornjack wrote:Currently I think the state song of Florida is "Swannee River" with it's chock full of racial insensitive lyrics. There was a legislator in Florida who was trying to make the new song "I Have Found Me a Home" earlier in the year.

My home state of Virginia is in the same boat. It's official state song is likewise chock full of racial insensitive lyrics.

Carry Me back to Old Virginny
Written by James Bland

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There's where the cotton and the corn and tatoes grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where the old darke'ys heart am long'd to go,
There's where I labored so hard for old massa,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn,
No place on earth do I love more sincerely
Than old Virginny, the state where I was born.

CHORUS

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There's where the cotton and the corn and tatoes grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go.

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There let me live 'till I wither and decay,
Long by the old Dismal Swamp have I wandered,
There's where this old darke'ys life will pass away.
Massa and missis have long gone before me,
Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore,
There we'll be happy and free from all sorrow,
There's where we'll meet and we'll never part no more.

On Jan 28, 1997 the Virginia Senate voted 24 -15 to designate Carry Me Back as state song "emeritus" and directed a study committee to come up with a new state song. As far as I know it is apparently "still in committee" as no new state song has yet been agreed upon.
Carry Me back to Old Virginny was written by an African American minstrel, James Bland, in the last century and has been Virginia's state song since 1940.

~~~~ surfpirate

jonesbeach10 · Post by **jonesbeach10** » December 11, 2007 5:00 pm

Skibo wrote:Oh Canada should have been a choice.

I was thinking "New York, New York"

sonofabeach · Post by **sonofabeach** » December 11, 2007 5:06 pm

"Seminole Wind" or "I have found me a home" would be great but if I had to pick from that poll I'd go with the Miami Vice theme.

Conolulu · Post by **Conolulu** » December 11, 2007 5:43 pm

LIPH wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Why would anyone want Sweet Home Alabama as the Florida state song?

M'ville would be cool.
Maybe because Lynryd Skynyrd is (are?) from Jacksonville. That's the only reason I can think of.

Yep....

Everytime The Jaguars score a touchdown they play that.....

I always found it pretty amusing....

12vmanRick · Post by **12vmanRick** » December 11, 2007 5:58 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Why would anyone want Sweet Home Alabama as the Florida state song?

M'ville would be cool.

maybe because Lynyrd Skynyrd is from Jacksonville but they could have picked a better song by them to be a state song

SharkOnLand · Post by **SharkOnLand** » December 11, 2007 6:17 pm

buffettbride wrote:Colorado's is "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver.

The other one is "Where the Columbines Grow", but it wasn't catchy enough, so they picked a John Denver song as runner-up.

Why we even need a State song is beyond me. It's not like they play it before baseball games or something.

Snowparrot · Post by **Snowparrot** » December 11, 2007 8:09 pm

Skibo wrote:Oh Canada should have been a choice.

only in the winter time!