Wyoming State Song

"Wyoming" Lyrics: Charles Edwin Winter Music: George Edwin Knapp Adoption: 1955 HISTORY "Wyoming" was originally a poem written by Judge Charles Winter of Encampment, Wyoming, in 1903. The first score for the song was composed by Earl Clemens, who was an editor at the Grand Encampment Herald. The song was generally considered the state song, but it was not performed very often because of the extreme vocal range necessary to properly sing it. In 1920 George Knapp, the director of the music department at the University of Wyoming, set the song to a more traditional march tune, and this version eventually gained official status as Wyoming’s state song on February 15, 1955. -World Trade Press LYRICS In the far and mighty West, Where the crimson sun seeks rest, There's a growing splendid State that lies above, On the breast of this great land; Where the massive Rockies stand, There's Wyoming young and strong, the State I love! Chorus:Wyoming, Wyoming! Land of the sunlight clear! Wyoming, Wyoming! Land that we hold so dear! Wyoming, Wyoming! Precious art thou and thine! Wyoming, Wyoming! Beloved State of mine! In the flowers wild and sweet, Colors rare and perfumes meet; There's the columbine so pure, the daisy too, Wild the rose and red it springs, White the button and its rings, Thou art loyal for they're red and white and blue. Chorus Where thy peaks with crowned head, Rising till the sky they wed, Sit like snow queens ruling wood and stream and plain; 'Neath thy granite bases deep, 'Neath thy bosom's broadened sweep, Lie the riches that have gained and brought thee fame. Chorus Other treasures thou dost hold, Men and women thou dost mould; True and earnest are the lives that thou dost raise, Strengthen thy children though dost teach, Nature's truth thou givest to each, Free and noble are thy workings and thy ways. Chorus In the nation's banner free There's one star that has for me A radiance pure and splendor like the sun; Mine it is, Wyoming's star, Home it leads me near or far; O Wyoming! All my heart and love you've won! Chorus