#1263 - Beautiful Ohio

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• Composer:
  • Robert A. “Bobo” King (pseudonum Mary Earl) (1862-1932), 1918
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• Incipit: 13143231765 (intro)
• Condensed Incipit: 13143231765 (intro)
• Incipit: 5443544353766546654651
• Condensed Incipit: 543543537654654651
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• Lyrics
  Long, long ago
  Someone I know
  Had a little red canoe,
  In it room for only two.
  Love found its start
  Then in my heart
  And like a flower grew.
  
  chorus:
  Drifting with the current down a moonlit stream,
  While above the Heavens in their glory gleam,
  And the stars on high
  Twinkle in the sky,
  Seeming in a paradise of love divine,
  Dreaming of a pair of eyes that looked in mine.
  Beautiful Ohio, in dreams again I see
  Visons of what used to be.
  
  
  • Ballard MacDonald (1882-1935), 1918
• Lyrics
  I sailed away;
  Wandered afar;
  Crossed the mighty restless sea;
  Looked for where I ought to be.
  Cities so grand, mountains above,
  Led to this land I love.
  
  chorus:
  Beautiful Ohio, where the golden grain
  Dwarf the lovely flowers in the summer rain.
  Cities rising high, silhouette the sky.
  Freedom is supreme in this majestic land;
  Mighty factories seem to hum in tune, so grand.
  Beautiful Ohio, thy wonders are in view,
  Land where my dreams all come true!
  
  
  • Wilbert B. McBride, 1969 ¹⁾