Songs of South Carolina

SC State Symbols
Songs of South Carolina
By Nora Kirkeby
Jan 17, 2007, 16:08 PST

Carolina
Written by Henry Timrod
Music by Ann Custis Burgess
Adopted on February 11, 1911

Call on thy children of the hill,
Wake swamp and river, coast and rill.
Rouse all thy strength and all thy skill.
Carolina! Carolina!

Hold up the glories of thy dead;
Say how thy elder children bled,
And point to Eutaw's battle-bed.
Carolina! Carolina!

Thy skirts indeed the foe may part,
Thy robe be pierced with sword and dart,
They shall not touch thy noble heart,
Carolina! Carolina!

Throw thy bold banner to the breeze!
Front with thy ranks the threatening seas
Like thine own proud armorial trees,
Carolina! Carolina!

Grit with such wills to do and bear.
Assured in right, and mailed in prayer.
Thou wilt not bow thee to despair.
Carolina! Carolina!

Listen to the music for Carolina
Courtesy of HomewithGod

Photo by Jan Kronsell
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South Carolina on My Mind
Sung by Hank Martin and Buzz Arledge
Adopted in 1984

At the foot hills of the Appalachian chain,
Down through the rivers, to the coastal plain,
There's a place that I call home,
And I'll never be alone,
Singin' this Carolina love song

I've got South Carolina on my mind
Remembering all those sunshine Summertimes,
And the Autumns in the Smokies when the leaves turn to gold
Touches my heart and thrills my soul to have South Carolina on my mind,
With those clean snow-covered mountain Wintertimes
And the white sand of the beaches and those Carolina peaches,
I've got South Carolina on my mind.

I'm grown now with a family of my own
In a place that all my kids are callin' home.
And I love this life I'm livin',
And thank God for all He's givin',
But my heart sings a Carolina love song

I've got South Carolina on my mind
Remembering all those sunshine Summertimes,
And the Autumns in the Smokies when the leaves turn to gold
Touches my heart and thrills my soul to have South Carolina on my mind,
With those clean snow-covered mountain Wintertimes
And the white sand of the beaches and those Carolina peaches,
I've got South Carolina on my mind.

Photo by Tim Wilson
Lisenced under the Creative Commons