Samuel Rogers' son cried out, "All the stars are falling!" Mr. Rogers, his family and some of their friends were among those to witness the Great Leonid Meteor Shower of 1833. It gives me chills just thinking of what it must have been like.
One hundred years later Mitch Parish and Frank Perkins wrote a beautiful tune commemorating the event, "Stars Fell on Alabama." I thought this was the state song of Alabama but that's incorrect. The state song is "Alabama," by Tutwiler and Gussen. I don't think Ella and Louis have this in their catalog:
Shouldn't a state song make you want to be in the state? Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina ...
One hundred years later Mitch Parish and Frank Perkins wrote a beautiful tune commemorating the event, "Stars Fell on Alabama." I thought this was the state song of Alabama but that's incorrect. The state song is "Alabama," by Tutwiler and Gussen. I don't think Ella and Louis have this in their catalog:
Alabama, Alabama, We will aye be true to thee,I'm sure it's eminently singable, though.
From thy Southern shores where groweth,
By the sea thy orange tree.
To thy Northern vale where floweth,
Deep blue the Tennessee,
Alabama, Alabama, we will aye be true to thee!
Shouldn't a state song make you want to be in the state? Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina ...
Hold up the glories of thy dead;The Shark Guys suggest some substitutes. I think "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" could catch on, don't you?
Say how thy elder children bled,
And point to Eutaw's battle-bed.
Carolina! Carolina!