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Look over the state song of Idaho and place the 15 correct words in the blanks.
"Here we Have Idaho" Lyrics
You've heard of the our land ,
Its beautiful and hills.
The majestic forests where abounds,
We love every nook and
CHORUS
And here we have Idaho,
Winning her way to .
Silver and gold in the sunlight ,
And lies in her .
Singing, we're singing of you,
Ah, too. All our lives ,
We'll go singing, singing of you,
Singing of Idaho.
There's one state in this great land of ours,
Where can be realized.
The made it so for you and me,
A we'll always prize.
"Here We Have Idaho" is the official state song of Idaho. It became the state song in 1931, but its story started several years earlier. The music was originally written by Sallie Hume Douglas, a composer who was living in Hawaii when she wrote this music. In 1915, a man named Albert J. Tompkins wrote the first set of words to the music while attending the University of Idaho. Later, a student named McKinley Helm wrote a new chorus.
The catchy tune quickly became popular with the students and soon spread across the entire state. The song focuses on the natural beauty and the spirit of Idaho. The lyrics describe the state's wide-open spaces, beautiful mountains, and peaceful valleys. It calls Idaho a land of liberty and opportunity where people work hard to build a good life. It is traditionally performed at official state events, school assemblies, and sports games to show state pride.
While the end of the song seems to claim that Idaho is the only state where you can achieve your dreams: the neighboring states might have a few things to say about that. Washington, Oregon, and Montana probably feel their own ideals are doing just fine, thank you very much. The lyrics boldly assert that the pioneers built this entire mountainous paradise just so we could enjoy it, which is a pretty sweet legacy if you ignore the fact that those pioneers were mostly just trying to survive the harsh winters without freezing. Oh, yeah...and that the Cour D'Alene, Kootenai, Nez Perce, Shoshone Nation, and Shoshone-Bannock Tribes were hanging around in Idaho a few years before those pioneers arrived.
It is the ultimate musical flex, basically telling the other 49 states to step aside because Idaho got there first - or at least 43rd.
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