Wisconsin State Ballad
History and Legislature Related to Oh Wisconsin, Land of My Dreams
Official State Ballad adopted by the Wisconsin State Legislature in 2001
Music by Shari Sarazin
Words by Erma Barrett
Historical Note on the Wisconsin State Ballad
Note: Interestingly enough, Erma Barrett is Shari Sarazin’s grandmother. Erma set music to the poem her grandmother had written way back in the 1920s.
Lyrics for the Wisconsin State Ballad
Oh Wisconsin, land of beauty, with your hillsides and your plains, with your jackpine and your birch tree, and your oak of mighty frame.
Land of rivers, lakes and valleys, land of warmth and winter snows, land of birds and beasts and humanity, Oh Wisconsin, I love you so.
Oh Wisconsin, land of my dreams. Oh Wisconsin, you’re all I’ll ever need. A little heaven here on earth could you be? Oh Wisconsin, land of my dreams.
In the summer, golden grain fields; in the winter, drift of white snow; in the springtime, robins singing; in the autumn, flaming colors show.
Oh I wonder who could wander, or who could want to drift for long, away from all your beauty, all your sunshine, all your sweet song?
Oh Wisconsin, land of my dreams. Oh Wisconsin, you’re all I’ll ever need. A little heaven here on earth could you be? Oh Wisconsin, land of my dreams.
Oh Wisconsin, land of my dreams. And when it’s time, let my spirit run free in Wisconsin, land of my dreams.
Citation styles
- APA style
- Wisconsin State Ballad. (2010, December 14). In State Reports by ClassBrain. Retrieved 18:16, May 18, 2012, from http://www.statereports.us/2010/12/wisconsin-state-ballad/
- MLA style
- Rory Blanchard-Bell, “Wisconsin State Ballad.” State Reports by ClassBrain. 14 December 2010, 07:08 UTC. . 18 May 2012 <http://www.statereports.us/2010/12/wisconsin-state-ballad/>.
- MHRA style
- Rory Blanchard-Bell, 'Wisconsin State Ballad', State Reports by ClassBrain, 14 December 2010, 07:08 UTC, <http://www.statereports.us/2010/12/wisconsin-state-ballad/> [accessed 18 May 2012]
- The Chicago Manual of Style
- Rory Blanchard-Bell, “Wisconsin State Ballad.” State Reports by ClassBrain, http://www.statereports.us/2010/12/wisconsin-state-ballad/ [accessed May 18, 2012].
- CBE/CSE style
- Rory Blanchard-Bell, Wisconsin State Ballad [Internet]. State Reports by ClassBrain; 2010 December 14, 07:08 UTC [cited 2012 May 18]. Available from: http://www.statereports.us/2010/12/wisconsin-state-ballad/.
- Bluebook style
- Wisconsin State Ballad, http://www.statereports.us/2010/12/wisconsin-state-ballad/ (last visited May. 18, 2012).
- AMA style
- Rory Blanchard-Bell, Wisconsin State Ballad. State Reports by ClassBrain. December 14, 2010, 07:08 UTC. Available at: http://www.statereports.us/2010/12/wisconsin-state-ballad/. Accessed May 18, 2012.