Where the Columbines Grow
State Song of Colorado / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Where the Columbines Grow is one of the two official state songs of the U.S. state of Colorado.[1] It was written and composed by Dr. Arthur John Fynn in 1911,[2][3] and was adopted on May 8, 1915.[4] In the early to mid-2000s, there was debate over replacing Where the Columbines Grow with John Denver's Rocky Mountain High or Merle Haggard's rare song Colorado. In 2007, the Colorado legislature named Rocky Mountain High as Colorado's second official state song, paired with Where the Columbines Grow.[5]
State song of Colorado | |
Lyrics | Arthur John Fynn, 1911 |
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Music | Arthur John Fynn, 1911 |
Adopted | May 8, 1915; 108 years ago (1915-05-08) |
Succeeded by | Rocky Mountain High (equal status, added 2007) |
Audio sample | |
Performance of Where the Columbines Grow (first verse and chorus), featuring piano and voice | |
In October 1978, Dave Beadles, then the music director for 740 KSSS in Colorado Springs, petitioned Governor Richard Lamm to temporarily change the state song for Country Music Month to Colorado, written by Dave Kirby.[6] The petition was successful and Kirby was flown to Colorado for the occasion.[7]