Illinois Will Always Be My Home

Illinois Will Always Be My Home

Sheet music

Songs and music

Illinois

World War (1914-1918)

Lyrics depict singer's pride in the State of Illinois, noting the state's geography, industry, and soldiers who fought and died during World War I.

Lange, Emma Busch

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

ca 1930

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Illinois Sheet Music Collection

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Champaign-Urbana, IL

Illinois Will Always Be My Home

Song

Words and Music by

Emma Busch Lange

Price 35 Cents

Published by

EMMA BUSCH LANGE

Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

Made in U.S.A.----

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Illinois Will Always Be My Home

March time

EMMA BUSCH LANGE

1. There's a voice within me singing, I can hear the echo ringing, Illinois, Illinois will always be my home. Nowhere are the skies more blue, Nowhere are the friends more true; Illinois Illinois will always be my home.

2. Violets in springtime peeping, Tiny seeds are sown for reaping, Fields of gold, fields of gold when harvest days are come. When thy plains lie deep in snow, And thy happy hearth fires glow, Illinois Illinois will always be my home.

3. Unexcelled thy higher learning, Wheels of industry e'er turning, Need for wealth, need for wealth, thy children ever roam. In thy heart are mines and oil, Streams refresh thy fertile soil, Illinois Illinois will always be my home.

4. Loyal sons to duty calling, Brave and true they fought, and falling, Lie in graves, lie in graves today where poppies bloom. When I reach the great divide, May I in thy bosom abide; Illinois Illinois will always be my home.

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