PRINTER'S NO. 1389
No. 1250 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY PHILLIPS (BY REQUEST), APRIL 22, 1981
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 22, 1981
AN ACT
1 Declaring and adopting the song "Pennsylvania," by Mary E. H.
2 Stark, as the State song of the Commonwealth.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. The song "Pennsylvania," the words and music by
6 Mary E. H. Stark, is hereby adopted as the State song of
7 Pennsylvania and shall be the official song for all public
8 purposes. The words of the song are as follows:
9 First verse: Hail to you dear State we love,
10 Duly blessed by Him above;
11 Crystal lakes and rivers flow,
12 Penn's homeland of long ago.
13 Second verse: Patriots through war and toil
14 Laid the keystone to your soil;
15 Shrine of heroes, now and then,
16 Proclaimed afar by word and pen.
17 Third verse: Ruffed grouse fly and whitetail roam,
1 The hemlock forests are their home;
2 Brook trout swim the mountain streams,
3 Fireflies cast their mystic beams.
4 Fourth verse: On your plain the laurel grow,
5 First your liberty to know;
6 Independence, virtue, too,
7 Eternal in your banner blue.
8 Chorus: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania,
9 The pride of pioneers;
10 Their legacy, a country free,
11 Endures on through the years.
12 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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