"My Homeland, Tennessee," the first of Tennessee's
ten official state songs, was written by Roy Lamont Smith and Nell Grayson Taylor. Taylor, a previously published poet and
World War I
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nurse, was responsible for the text of the song. Smith, an instructor at the Cadek Conservatory of Music in
Chattanooga, Tennessee
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, supplied the music, and the combined effort was entered into a contest soliciting a patriotic state song for Tennessee. The song won, and as a result, it was adopted by the
Tennessee State Legislature
The Tennessee General Assembly (TNGA) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is a part-time bicameral legislature consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives. The Speaker of the Senate carries the additional title ...
in 1925.
The Nashville Children's Choir singing "My Homeland, Tennessee
References
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1925 songs