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Texas, Our Texas
	Regional anthem of Texas
Lyrics	Gladys Yoakum Wright, William J. Marsh, 1924
Music	William J. Marsh, 1924
Adopted	1929; 95 years ago
Readopted	1993

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"Texas, Our Texas" is the regional anthem of the U.S. state of Texas, adopted in the late 1920s as the official state song.

History

It was written in 1924 by William J. Marsh,^[1]^[2] who was born in Liverpool, United Kingdom, and emigrated to Texas as a young man, and Gladys Yoakum Wright (1891–1956),^[3]^[4] of Fort Worth, Texas. It was selected as the official state song by a concurrent resolution of the Texas Legislature in 1929 following a statewide competition. Older songs, such as "The Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Dixie", were also considered but ultimately it was decided a new song should be composed.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Although the song has been sung since the 41st legislature in 1929,^[8]^[9] it was officially adopted by the 73rd legislature as the state song in 1993.^[10]

The song is usually performed just after the national anthem with a display of the flag. In the absence of the flag, those present during the song's performance are expected to face toward the music and act just as they would if the flag had been present.^[2]

The first word of the third line was originally largest, but when Alaska became the largest U.S. state when it was admitted to the United States in 1959, the word was replaced with boldest.^[11]^[12]

This song was sung in group by elementary students in Texas at the beginning of their school classes during the 1950s. As late as the 1990s, this song was still sung before classes in some schools, along with the pledge to the U.S. and Texan flags.^[13]

Tune

$\relative c' { \key c \major \time 4/4 \tempo 4 = 120 c4 c2 d4 e g2 f4 e c c d c2. r4 e g2 g4 a c2 c4 b g g a g2. r4 g g2 a4 g c,2 d4 e g c4. g8 a2. a4 d, e e f g g2 a4 b g g a g2. r4 c4^"Chorus" c2 b4 b a2 a4 a e f g f2. e4 d e f a g c c a g e e4. d8 c2. r4 \bar "|." } \addlyrics { Tex -- as, our Tex -- as! All hail the might -- y State! Tex -- as, our Tex -- as! So won -- der -- ful so great! Bold -- est and grand -- est, With -- stand -- ing ev -- 'ry test; O Em -- pire wide and glor -- ious, You stand su -- preme -- ly blest. God bless you Tex -- as! And keep you brave and strong, That you may grow in power and worth, Thro -- 'out the a -- ges long. }$

Lyrics

I
Texas, our Texas! All hail the mighty State!
Texas, our Texas! So wonderful so great!
Boldest and grandest, Withstanding ev'ry test;
O Empire wide and glorious, You stand supremely blest.

Chorus:
God bless you Texas! And keep you brave and strong,
That you may grow in power and worth,
Thro'out the ages long.

II
Texas, O Texas! Your freeborn single star,
Sends out its radiance to nations near and far.
Emblem of freedom! It sets our hearts aglow,
With thoughts of San Jacinto and glorious Alamo.

Chorus

III
Texas, dear Texas! From tyrant grip now free,
Shines forth in splendor your star of destiny!
Mother of heroes! We come your children true,
Proclaiming our allegiance, our faith, our love for you.

Chorus

References

^ Marsh, William J. (William John). "William J. Marsh Papers: A Guide". legacy.lib.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^ ^a ^b "Texas State Song | TSLAC". www.tsl.texas.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^ Johnson, Frank W. (1914). Barker, Eugene C. (ed.). A History of Texas and Texans. Chicago: American Historical Society. p. 2105.
^ "Funeral to be in Texas for Mrs. Gladys Wright". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. March 10, 1956.
^ Alamo, The (2020-04-07). "Who was the Yellow Rose of Texas?". Medium. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^ Pruitt, Sarah. "Who was the Yellow Rose of Texas?". HISTORY. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^ Camarillo, Vicky. "Texas school board starts 'new age of understanding,' drops Confederate song 'Dixie' after years of criticism". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^ "Texas Our Texas - The Lone Star State Song". www.texasourtexas.info. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^ "texas, our texas, by dj ewi". dj ewi. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^ Resource Bulletin SRS. Southern Research Station. 1996.
^ Alvarez, Elizabeth Cruce (November 8, 2011). Texas Almanac 2012–2013. Texas A&M University Press. pp. Contents. ISBN 9780876112571. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
^ Spain, Charles A. (2010-06-15). "Texas, Our Texas". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^ "Texas our Texas". Texas state library and archives commission. September 11, 2023.

External links

"State Song" (Texas Government Code § 3101.005)

[1] Marsh, William J. (William John). "William J. Marsh Papers: A Guide". legacy.lib.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-21.

[:0-2] "Texas State Song | TSLAC". www.tsl.texas.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-21.

[3] Johnson, Frank W. (1914). Barker, Eugene C. (ed.). A History of Texas and Texans. Chicago: American Historical Society. p. 2105.

[4] "Funeral to be in Texas for Mrs. Gladys Wright". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. March 10, 1956.

[5] Alamo, The (2020-04-07). "Who was the Yellow Rose of Texas?". Medium. Retrieved 2020-04-21.

[6] Pruitt, Sarah. "Who was the Yellow Rose of Texas?". HISTORY. Retrieved 2020-04-21.

[7] Camarillo, Vicky. "Texas school board starts 'new age of understanding,' drops Confederate song 'Dixie' after years of criticism". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-04-21.

[8] "Texas Our Texas - The Lone Star State Song". www.texasourtexas.info. Retrieved 2020-04-21.

[9] "texas, our texas, by dj ewi". dj ewi. Retrieved 2020-04-21.

[10] Resource Bulletin SRS. Southern Research Station. 1996.

[11] Alvarez, Elizabeth Cruce (November 8, 2011). Texas Almanac 2012–2013. Texas A&M University Press. pp. Contents. ISBN 9780876112571. Retrieved 17 November 2013.

[:1-12] Spain, Charles A. (2010-06-15). "Texas, Our Texas". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2020-04-21.

[13] "Texas our Texas". Texas state library and archives commission. September 11, 2023.

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+|image = Flag of Texas at Ribfest Bowmanville 2016 (2).jpg
 |adopted={{Start date and age|1929}}
-|author=[[William John Marsh|William J. Marsh]]
+|author=Gladys Yoakum Wright, [[William J. Marsh]]
 |music_date=1924
-|composer=[[William John Marsh|William J. Marsh]]
+|composer=William J. Marsh
 |lyrics_date=1924
+|readopted=1993
 }}
 "'''Texas, Our Texas'''" is the [[regional anthem]] of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Texas]], adopted in the late 1920s as the official [[state song]].
 ==History==
-It was written in 1924 by [[William John Marsh|William J. Marsh]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00247/arl-00247.html|title=William J. Marsh Papers: A Guide|last=Marsh|first=William J. (William John)|website=legacy.lib.utexas.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/statesong.html|title=Texas State Song {{!}} TSLAC|website=www.tsl.texas.gov|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref> who was born in [[Liverpool|Liverpool, United Kingdom]], and emigrated to Texas as a young man, and Gladys Yoakum Wright, a native of [[Fort Worth, Texas]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_lf_k0700_1119.pdf|title=Texas Official Items|website=Twpd}}</ref> and selected as the official [[state song]] by a concurrent resolution of the [[Texas Legislature]] in 1929 following a statewide competition. Older songs, such as "[[The Yellow Rose of Texas (song)|The Yellow Rose of Texas]]" and "[[Dixie (song)|Dixie]]", were also considered but ultimately it was decided a new song should be composed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/@OfficialAlamo/who-was-the-yellow-rose-of-texas-750c95617241|title=Who was the Yellow Rose of Texas?|last=Alamo|first=The|date=2020-04-07|website=Medium|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.com/news/who-was-the-yellow-rose-of-texas|title=Who was the Yellow Rose of Texas?|last=Pruitt|first=Sarah|website=HISTORY|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.caller.com/story/news/education/2020/01/14/refugio-isd-board-votes-unanimously-drop-controversial-fight-song/4421917002/|title=Texas school board starts 'new age of understanding,' drops Confederate song 'Dixie' after years of criticism|last=Camarillo|first=Vicky|website=USA TODAY|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref>
+It was written in 1924 by [[William John Marsh|William J. Marsh]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00247/arl-00247.html|title=William J. Marsh Papers: A Guide|last=Marsh|first=William J. (William John)|website=legacy.lib.utexas.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/statesong.html|title=Texas State Song {{!}} TSLAC|website=www.tsl.texas.gov|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref> who was born in [[Liverpool|Liverpool, United Kingdom]], and emigrated to Texas as a young man, and Gladys Yoakum Wright (1891–1956),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Frank W. |author1-link=Frank W. Johnson |editor1-last=Barker |editor1-first=Eugene C. |editor1-link=Eugene C. Barker |title=A History of Texas and Texans |date=1914 |publisher=American Historical Society |location=Chicago |page=2105 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyoftexaste04john/page/2422/mode/2up}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Funeral to be in Texas for Mrs. Gladys Wright |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch/36983456/ |work=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |date=March 10, 1956}}</ref> of [[Fort Worth, Texas]]. It was selected as the official [[state song]] by a concurrent resolution of the [[Texas Legislature]] in 1929 following a statewide competition. Older songs, such as "[[The Yellow Rose of Texas (song)|The Yellow Rose of Texas]]" and "[[Dixie (song)|Dixie]]", were also considered but ultimately it was decided a new song should be composed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/@OfficialAlamo/who-was-the-yellow-rose-of-texas-750c95617241|title=Who was the Yellow Rose of Texas?|last=Alamo|first=The|date=2020-04-07|website=Medium|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.com/news/who-was-the-yellow-rose-of-texas|title=Who was the Yellow Rose of Texas?|last=Pruitt|first=Sarah|website=HISTORY|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.caller.com/story/news/education/2020/01/14/refugio-isd-board-votes-unanimously-drop-controversial-fight-song/4421917002/|title=Texas school board starts 'new age of understanding,' drops Confederate song 'Dixie' after years of criticism|last=Camarillo|first=Vicky|website=USA TODAY|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref>
 Although the song has been sung since the 41st legislature in 1929,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.texasourtexas.info/Index.html|title=Texas Our Texas - The Lone Star State Song|website=www.texasourtexas.info|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://djewi.bandcamp.com/album/texas-our-texas|title=texas, our texas, by dj ewi|website=dj ewi|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref> it was officially adopted by [[Seventy-third Texas Legislature|the 73rd legislature]] as the state song in 1993.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3R_mBG7Z2IC&pg=PT6 |title=Resource Bulletin SRS|date=1996|publisher=Southern Research Station|language=en}}</ref>
-The song is usually played and sung  just before the [[The Star-Spangled Banner|national anthem]], with a display of the flag. In the absence of the flag (when the song is sung), those present are expected to face toward the music and act just as they would if the flag had been present.<ref name=":0" />
+The song is usually performed just after the [[The Star-Spangled Banner|national anthem]] with a display of the [[Flag of Texas|flag]]. In the absence of the flag, those present during the song's performance are expected to face toward the music and act just as they would if the flag had been present.<ref name=":0" />
-The first word of the third line was originally ''largest'', but when [[Alaska]] became the largest U.S. state when it was admitted to the [[United States]] in 1959, the word was replaced with ''boldest''.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlxFHFdF3_gC&q=Arp%2C+Texas&pg=PT25 | title=Texas Almanac 2012–2013 | publisher=Texas A&M University Press | date=Nov 8, 2011 | access-date=17 November 2013 | author=Alvarez, Elizabeth Cruce | pages=Contents| isbn=9780876112571 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/xet01|title=TEXAS, OUR TEXAS|last=SPAIN|first=CHARLES A.|date=2010-06-15|website=tshaonline.org|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref>
+The first word of the third line was originally ''largest'', but when [[Alaska]] became the largest U.S. state when it was admitted to the [[United States]] in 1959, the word was replaced with ''boldest''.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlxFHFdF3_gC&q=Arp%2C+Texas&pg=PT25 | title=Texas Almanac 2012–2013 | publisher=Texas A&M University Press | date=November 8, 2011 | access-date=17 November 2013 | author=Alvarez, Elizabeth Cruce | pages=Contents| isbn=9780876112571 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/xet01|title=Texas, Our Texas|last=Spain|first=Charles A.|date=2010-06-15|website=tshaonline.org|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref>
-This song was sung in group by elementary students in Texas at the beginning of their school classes during the 1950s. As late as the 1980s, this song was still sung before classes in some schools, along with the pledge to the U.S. and Texan flags.
+This song was sung in group by elementary students in Texas at the beginning of their school classes during the 1950s. As late as the 1990s, this song was still sung before classes in some schools, along with the [[Pledge of Allegiance|pledge to the U.S.]] and [[Flag of Texas#Pledge of allegiance and flag protocol|Texan flags]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 11, 2023 |title=Texas our Texas |url=https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/statesong.html |website=Texas state library and archives commission}}</ref>
+==Tune==
+<score sound="1">
+  \relative c' {
+   \key c \major \time 4/4 \tempo 4 = 120
+    c4 c2 d4 e g2 f4 e c c d c2. r4
+    e g2 g4 a c2 c4 b g g a g2. r4
+    g g2 a4 g c,2 d4 e g c4. g8 a2. a4
+    d, e e f g g2 a4 b g g a g2. r4
+    c4^"Chorus" c2 b4 b a2 a4 a e f g f2. e4
+    d e f a g c c a g e e4. d8 c2. r4 \bar "|."
+}
+  \addlyrics {
+   Tex -- as, our Tex -- as! All hail the might -- y State!
+   Tex -- as, our Tex -- as! So won -- der -- ful so great!
+   Bold -- est and grand -- est, With -- stand -- ing ev -- 'ry test;
+   O Em -- pire wide and glor -- ious, You stand su -- preme -- ly blest.
+   God bless you Tex -- as! And keep you brave and strong,
+   That you may grow in power and worth, Thro -- 'out the a -- ges long.
+}
+</score>
 ==Lyrics==
 <poem>
+'''I'''
-[[Texas]], Our Texas! All hail the mighty State!
-Texas, Our Texas! So wonderful so great!
+Texas, our Texas! All hail the mighty State!
+Texas, our Texas! So wonderful so great!
-boldest and grandest, withstanding [[List of conflicts involving the Texas Military|ev'ry test]]
+Boldest and grandest, Withstanding [[List of conflicts involving the Texas Military|ev'ry test]];
-O Empire wide and glorious, you stand supremely blest.
+O Empire wide and glorious, You stand supremely blest.
+{{small|'''Chorus:'''}}
 God bless you Texas! And keep you brave and strong,
-That you may grow in power and worth, [[History of Texas|throughout the ages long]].
+That you may grow in power and worth,
+[[History of Texas|Thro'out the ages long]].
+'''II'''
-Texas, O Texas! your freeborn [[Flag of Texas|single star]],
+Texas, O Texas! Your freeborn [[Flag of Texas|single star]],
-Sends out its radiance to nations near and far,
+Sends out its radiance to nations near and far.
-Emblem of Freedom! it sets our hearts aglow,
+Emblem of freedom! It sets our hearts aglow,
 With thoughts of [[Battle of San Jacinto|San Jacinto]] and glorious [[Battle of the Alamo|Alamo]].
+{{small|'''''Chorus'''''}}
-God bless you Texas! And keep you brave and strong,
-That you may grow in power and worth, throughout the ages long.
+'''III'''
-Texas, dear Texas! From [[Centralist Republic of Mexico|tyrant grip]] now free
+Texas, dear Texas! From [[Centralist Republic of Mexico|tyrant grip]] now free,
-Shine forth in splendor your star of destiny
+Shines forth in splendor your star of destiny!
-Mother of heroes, we come your children true.
+Mother of heroes! We come your children true,
 Proclaiming our allegiance, our faith, our love for you.
+{{small|'''''Chorus'''''}}
-God bless you Texas! And keep you brave and strong
-That you may grow in power and worth, throughout the ages long.
 </poem>
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 [[Category:Songs about Texas]]
 [[Category:United States state songs]]
+[[Category:Anthems of non-sovereign states]]
+[[Category:Symbols of Texas]]