I was going through a folder I have on my work PC which contains all sorts of random docs, such as a spreadsheet used to plan my bachelor party, a letter to my pediatrician requesting my immunization history, a list of places to eat around my office and a video, shot from the doomed Columbia Space Shuttle, of Israel from space (email me if you want this – I don’t want to post it and get hit with the bandwidth overages). I also found the lyrics to a song I learned in 5th grade which I sang in some concert: The 50 States in Rhyme Song. For all those who are nostalgic, especially for a time when we thought of states as just states, not red states or blue states, here is the song:
Alabama and Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, and Connecticut and more.
Delaware, Florida, Georgia and Hawaii, Idaho. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, still 35 to go.
Kansas and Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine. Maryland, Massachusetts, and good ole Michigan. Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana, Nebraska’s 27, number 28’s Nevada.
Next, New Hampshire and New Jersey, And way down, New Mexico.
Then New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, O – Hi – O.
Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, now let’s see.
Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee.
Texas, then there’s Utah. Vermont, I’m almost through. Virginia, then there’s Washington and West Virginia, too.
Could Wisconsin be the last one in the 49?
No, Wyoming is the last state in the 50 states that rhyme.
I for one can sing from memory the song up till the “#28’s Nevada” part.