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Title 50. STATE GOVERNMENT · Chapter 3. STATE FLAG, SEAL, AND OTHER SYMBOLS · Article 3. OTHER STATE SYMBOLS

50-3-60. State song.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The song “Georgia on My Mind” with lyrics by Mr. Stuart Gorrell and music by Mr. Hoagy Carmichael is designated as the official song of the State of Georgia.

  2. Georgia on My Mind

  3. Melodies bring memories

  4. That linger in my heart

  5. Make me think of Georgia

  6. Why did we ever part?

  7. Some sweet day when blossoms fall

  8. And all the world’s a song

  9. I’ll go back to Georgia

  10. ‘Cause that’s where I belong.

  11. Georgia, Georgia, the whole day through

  12. Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.

  13. Georgia, Georgia, a song of you

  14. Comes as sweet and clear as moonlight through the pines.

  15. Other arms reach out to me

  16. Other eyes smile tenderly

  17. Still in peaceful dreams I see

  18. The road leads back to you.

  19. Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find

  20. Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.

  21. Use by State of Georgia governed by 1979 agreement with Peer International Corporation. Copyright 1930 by Peer International Corporation. Copyright renewed. Used by permission.

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1979, p. 1425.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t49-t50-ch1-12-(v38)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V38, 2023 edition, page 496; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 b1a50b0e3917.