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XVI
AGRICULTURE.
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MOCCASIN BEND AND CHATTANOOGA FROM LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN
STATE FLAG
MY HOMELAND, TENNESSEE
Music by ROY LAMONT SMITH
STATE SEAL
Words by NELL GRAYSON TAYLOR
O Tennessee, that gave us birth,
To thee our hearts bow down.
For thee our love and loyalty
Shall weave a fadeless crown,
Thy purple hills our cradle was;
Thy fields our mother breast.
Beneath thy sunny bended skies.
Our childhood days were blessed.
CHORUS:
O Tennessee: Fair Tennessee:
Our love for thee can never die:
Dear Homeland, Tennessee.
'Twas long ago our fathers came.
A free and noble band.
Across the mountains' trowning heights,
To seek a promised land.
And here before their raptured eyes;
In beauteous majesty:
Outspread the smiling valleys
Of the winding Tennessee.
Could we forget our heritage
Of heroes strong and brave?
Could we do aught but cherish it,
Unsullied to the grave?
Ah no! the State where Jackson sleeps,
Shall ever peerless be
We glory in thy majesty:
Our homeland, Tennessee.
STATE CAPITOL
NORRIS DAM
Adopted 1925
MOCKINGBIRD
IRIS
LOADING COTTON ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER, MEMPHIS
STATE BIRD
E GREAT
STATE OSEE
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