May 3, 2024 · In 2015, the General Assembly designated two official state songs: “Our Great Virginia,” based on the folk song “Oh Shenandoah,” was named the official traditional song, and “Sweet Virginia Breeze” was named the official popular song.

Virginia's previous state song, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", adopted in 1940, [1] was rescinded in 1997 due to language deemed racist by the Virginia General Assembly. [13] In 2015, "Our Great Virginia" was made the new state song of Virginia. [14]

Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" is a song written circa 1878 by James A. Bland (1854–1911), an African-American composer and minstrel performer. [1] It was Virginia's state song from 1940 until 1997. [2]

State Anthem of VirginiaCarry Me Back to Old Virginny InstrumentalAnthems Of NationsLink to download:http://www.50states.com/Lyrics:Creative Commons Sourced...

Jan 31, 2025 · Carry Me back to Old Virginny / James Bland / Tom Roush.

Than old Virginny, the state where I was born. CHORUS Carry me back to old Virginny, There's where the cotton and the corn and tatoes grow, There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime, There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go. Carry me back to old Virginny, There let me live 'till I wither and decay,

Mar 16, 2021 · Written in 1878 by famed Black minstrel composer and performer James A. Bland, “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia” was named the official state song of Virginia in 1940. The song’s lyrics are sung from the perspective of a freedperson longing to return to the days of slavery, an assertion of the Lost Cause .

You’ll always be our great Virginia. Our Great Virginia was voted in as the state’s official traditional song in 2015 when the original state song was retired. Sweet Virginia Breeze by Robbin Thompson and Steve Bassett is the designated popular state song.

The song "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," by James A. Bland, as set out in the House Joint Resolution 10, adopted by the General Assembly of Virginia at the Session of 1940, is declared to be the official song emeritus of the Commonwealth.

The song, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", words and music by James Allen Bland, was adopted as the official state song of Virginia by the General Assembly with House Joint Resolution No. 10 in 1940. Even as it was adopted, some expressed concern over the lyrics.