Governor Napolitano, what are you thinking????
15 Feb 2007 Leave a Comment
in Arizona History, Humor
Governor, I don’t agree with a lot of what you do, but I respect you for the office you hold. However, I have just uncovered something that is shocking and beyond the pale. I don’t think it’s a cause for alarm, but I found out that the official State Song of Arizona has been removed from the governor’s site. Yeah, you can find it on Jan Brewer’s site, but who in the world thinks to look there? Don’t get me wrong, I have no quarrel with Jan, but I’m not sure that anyone goes to her site unless its the day after an election.
I’m thinking of starting a campaign to get the song back on the official site where it belongs, but then again, do people even know what the lyrics are to the song? Do my friends and neighbors even know the difference between the official song and other pretenders to the title? I’m worried that some people may think that the state theme song could be “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”.
Just for the record, here is the first stanza of the offficial Arizona state song, written in 1915 by Margaret Rowe Clifford:
To this land where life is young.
Where the wide, wide world is waiting,
The songs that will now be sung.
Where the golden sun is flaming
Into warm, white shining day,
And the sons of men are blazing
Their priceless right of way.
If you notice, Ol’ Margaret may have had her finger on the pulse of the future of Arizona. I think that “And the sons of men are blazing, Their priceless right of way” is a perfect description of rush hour on the Northbound 101.
