State Songs by BarkerC

The title of Indiana's state song, written by Paul Dresser, references the banks of this river, which flows from Fort Recovery in Ohio, west across Northern Indiana, past Terre Haute, until forming the southern part of the Indiana/Illinois border.

While Colorado adopted "Rocky Mountain High" in 2007, it has "co-official" status with "Where the [BLANK] Grow", a nod to Colorado's state flower.

Two Answers Required: Georgia's state song specifies that it is this man's 1960 version of what 1930 Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell penned song that is the officially recognized state song.

One of Louisiana's state songs is this oft-covered "country" tune written by former Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis and included in the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry in 2013.

Originally written as an anthem to support the Confederacy, "Maryland, My Maryland" shares its tune with what Yuletide carol, written in 1824 in Leipzig to honor a specific cultivar of fir tree.

"Do You Realize" that this band had one of its songs adopted as Oklahoma's official state rock song in 2009

Tennessee has a lot of state songs. It has "Rocky Top", "Tennessee Waltz", and "Smoky Mountain Rain", made popular in 1980 by this Country Music Hall of Famer who also had crossover hits with "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World" and "Any Day Now".

Sung after West Virginia victories at Mountaineer Field is this 1971 John Denver track that opens "Almost Heaven, West Virginia...", which became West Virginia's official state song in 2014.

While Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home" is the official state song of Kentucky, this man's 1946 waltz, "Blue Moon of Kentucky" is the state's official bluegrass song.

Much to John Hodgman's disappointment, in 2015, an effort to make this song by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers the official state rock song of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts failed, in part because of split opinion about including Aerosmith's "Dream On".

Tying in to a late 1970s tourism campaign involving American Typewriter font of the same name, this 1977 track is the official state song of New York.

The only state with an official cantata is this state whose official cantata is entitled "The Nutmeg".