A 1922 marching song.
Words by Albert E. Johnson.
Music by B. H. Poucher.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- You may sing about your old Kentucky moonlight
Or your home in Tennessee
Your Indiana home down on the Wabash
Or wherever it may be
But the place for which my heart is yearning
And the place I long to see
Is my dear old Badger home state
Wisconsin’s the place for me
Chorus
It has the beauty, and it has all nature’s charms
Sweet scented meadows and great fertile farms
Virgin forests where all wild things dwell
In leafy bower and shadowy dell
With wild flowers blooming in valleys green
Limp flowing brooklets and murmuring streams
Your rivers flowing, and lakes so blue
Old Wisconsin, hail to you
- You may sing about your California roses
Or your Dixie land so fair
The cotton blossoms down in old Virginia
And your longing to be there
But the place to which my thoughts are turning
And the only place to be
Is my dear old Badger home state
Wisconsin, all hail to thee
Sung here by Fred Feild: