Which US state has the most songs written about it?

Answer 1

That is exactly right! California may not even come in 2nd. The United States doesn't have as many song mentions as Texas, its people, and its parts. Possible contenders: Jesus and Love. Also, Texas has an entire genre of music totally dedicated to it, we like to call it Texas Country. In addition, all small- medium sized cities in Texas have songs written about them. We have songs about hundreds of small towns in Texas, counties, rivers, geographical features, historical figures and groups (such as the Texas Rangers), lakes, geographical regions, historical events, and let us not forget the Gulf of Mexico. Remember, Texas was its own country for ten years and we fought Santa Anna in a Revolution as unlikely to be won as the American Revolution (Remember the Alamo?). Texas students learn Texas history in 4th and 7th grades (in fact, I teach it and use music to do so), and we are very proud of our history, geography, and music. In fact, I bet I could name more songs about Texas from memory than there are a total of about California or any other state. I bet Texas has more songs than California and all the other states put together. Tonight, as we speek, there are people (that would be plural) in Texas writing more songs about... Texas.

"If you ask me what I like about Texas, well... I could tell ya... but it's gonna take all night long!"- Gary P. Nunn

EDIT: No, California doesn't come close to beating Texas and certainly not as a repeat. Might want to count next time. Wike has the list for California, and it is quite long. However, Texas list covers 46 PAGES!!! hahaha... Take the back seat California, Texas rocks yet again!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_about_Texas

Sorry, but California beats Texas once again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_California

ACTUALLY, Texas has the most songs written about it. Sorry Georgia.

• ABILENE - George Hamilton IV
• A BOY FROM TEXAS, A GIRL FROM TENNESSEE - Gene Autry
• ACROSS THE ALLEY FROM THE ALAMO - Bob Wills
• ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE.
• AFTER TEXAS - Roy Head.
• ALEXIS FROM TEXAS - Rod Steagall
• ALL ALONE IN AUSTIN - Jean Shepard
• ALL ALONE IN TEXAS - Jimmie Dolan
• ALL MY EX'S LIVE IN TEXAS - George Strait.
• ALL NIGHT TEXAS TURNAROUND - Ted Roddy & The Tearjoint Troubadors
• ALL THE RAGE IN PARIS - The Derailers.
• ALL THE WAY FROM TEXAS - Steve Dansiger
• AMARILLO BY MORNING - George Strait.
• AMARILLO HIGH STEP - Joe Carr & The Texas Lone Star Band
• AMARILLO HIGHWAY - Robert Earl Keen.
• AMY'S BACK IN AUSTIN - Little Texas
• AND GOD CREATED TEXAS - Johnny Bush
• ANY GAL FROM TEXAS - Jane Russell
• AT A TEXAS WISHING WELL - D. Patterson
• A TEXAS HONKY TONK - Darrel McCall
• AUSTIN - Blake Shelton.
• AUSTIN PICKERS - Gary P. Nunn
• AUSTIN PRISON - Johnny Cash
• AUSTIN-TATIOUS - Dave Biller & Travis County Pickin'
• AUSTIN TEXAS - The Piners
• AUSTIN TEXAS BLUES - Shakin' Apostles
• AUSTIN WALTZ - Don Walser
• A WEST TEXAS LULLABY - Toni Price
• BACK TO TEXAS - Tracy Byrd
• BANDERA WALZ - Ernest Tubb
• BEAUMONT BAYOU - Joe Carr & The Texas Lone Star Band
• BEAUMONT RAG - Grouchy & The Texas Pioneers
• BEAUTIFUL MOON OVER TEXAS - The Riders of the Purple Sage
• BEAUTIFUL TEXAS - Gene Autry, also Willie Nelson
• BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS.
• BEST PART OF TEXAS - Glen Campbell
• BIG BALLS IN COWTOWN - George Strait.
• BIG BEAUTIFUL TEXAS - Gene Autry
• BIG IN TEXAS - Blu Shale
• BIG TEXAS - D. L. Menard
• BIG TEXAS MOON - Red Steagall
• BIG YELLOW MOON OVER TEXAS - Bill Neely
• BIGGER THAN TEXAS - Tommy Sands
• BLACK HEART OF TEXAS - Neal Coty
• BLAME IT ON TEXAS - Mark Chestnutt
• BLUE TEXAS MOONLIGHT - Elton Britt
• BLUE TEXAS SKIES - Garth Brooks.
• BLUE TEXAS WALTZ - Billy Joe Shaver
• BLUE YODEL (T FOR TEXAS) - Jimmie Rodgers
• BLUES LEFT TEXAS - Big Joe Williams
• BLUES OF TEXAS - Gerry McGee
• BLUEST EYES IN TEXAS - Restless Heart
• BOGGY ROAD TO TEXAS - Snuffy Jenkins
• BOOGIE BACK TO TEXAS - ASleep At The Wheel.
• BORN IN TEXAS - Thomas Shaw
• BROOKSMITH, TEXAS - Gary P. Nunn
• BROKE DOWN SOUTH OF DALLAS - Junior Brown
• BROWNSVILLE GIRL - Bob Dylan
• BRYAN TEXAS - Mike West
• BUT I'VE GOT TEXAS - Jon Wayne
• BYE BYE TEXAS - Matt Guitar Murphy
• CACTUS TEXAS - Waylon Jennings
• CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF TEXAS - Bob Wills
• CAN'T SHAKE THE SANDS OF TEXAS FROM MY SHOES - Gene Autry
• CAROLINA WANTS A TEXAS MAN - Amy Ames
• CHINA GROVE - The Doobie Brothers
• CHRISTMAS IN TEXAS - Clinton Gregory
• CHRISTMAS TIME IN TEXAS - Dale Watson
• COME ON DOWN TO TEXAS - Steven Fromholz
• COMING BACK TO TEXAS - Willie Nelson, Kenneth Threadgill
• CONDO IN HONDO - Hank Thompson
• CORPUS CHRISTI BAY - Johnny Rodriguez.
• COWBOY HAT IN DALLAS - Charlie Daniels
• CRUISIN' TEXAS AVENUE - Mean Gene Kelton & the Die Hards (Baytown, TX)
• DAD'S LITTLE TEXAS LAD - Wilf Carter
• DALLAS - Jimmy Dale Gilmore
• DALLAS - Johnny Winter
• DALLAS AFTER MIDNIGHT - Ray Wyle Hubbard
• DALLAS, TEXAS - Bad Livers, Austin Lounge Lizards
• DALLAS COUNTY JAIL BLUES - Gene Autry
• DALLAS DAYS AND FORT WORTH NIGHTS - Chris Ledoux
• DALLAS RAG - John McCutcheon
• DALLAS TWO-STEP - Joe Carr & The Texas Lone Star Band
• DANCE TIME IN TEXAS - George Strait
• DAS GIBT ES NUR IN TEXAS - Hans Albers
• DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS - Gene Autry
• DING DONG DADDY FROM DUMAS - Phil Harris
• DOES FORT WORTH EVER CROSS YOUR MIND - George Strait
• DON'T ASK ME WHY (I'M GOING TO TEXAS) - Asleep at the Wheel
• DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS - Mike Gallemore
• DOWN DALLAS ALLEY - Buckwheat Zydeco
• DOWN IN TEXAS - Jerry Jeff Walker, also Allman Brothers
• DOWN TEXAS WAY - Gene Autry
• DREAM ON TEXAS LADIES - John Michael Montgomery.
• DRIFTING TEXAS SAND - Webb Pierce
• EAST OF HOUSTON, WEST OF BATON ROUGE - Chris Gaffney
• EAST TEXAS BLUES - Dave Alvin
• EAST TEXAS PINES - Libbi Bosworth
• EL PASO - Marty Robbins
• EL PASO CITY - Marty Robbins
• ESTRELLA DE TEXAS - Lupillo Rivera
• EVEN TEXAS ISN'T BIG ENOUGH NOW - Riders in the Sky
• EVERYTHING'S BIGGER IN TEXAS - Jack Hardy
• FAR AWAY TEXAS BLUES - Douglas Williams
• FAST TRAINS TO TEXAS - Brian Burns
• FIRST TASTE OF TEXAS - Ed Bruce
• FLIES OF TEXAS ARE UPON YOU - Ray Stevens
• FLOOD DOWN IN TEXAS - Stevie Ray Vaughn
• FLOWER OF SOUTH TEXAS - Riders of the Purple Sage
• FLOWER OF TEXAS - Pee Wee King
• FLOYD'S EYES OF TEXAS BOOGIE - Floyd Domino
• FOREVER TEXAS - Robbie Williams
• FORT WORTH JUMP - Joe Carr & The Texas Lone Star Band
• FROM HELL TO TURKEY TEXAS - Dick Damron
• FROST TEXAS TORNADO BLUES - Alger Texas Alexander
• FT. WORTH, TEXAS - Ray Price
• FULL BLOODED TEXAS -
• GALVESTON - Glen Campbell.
• GO BACK TO TEXAS - Roy Acuff
• GOD BLESS TEXAS - The Country Dance Kings
• GOD BLESSED TEXAS - Little Texas
• GOING BACK TO HOUSTON - Dean Martin
• GOOD TEXAN - The Vaughan Brothers
• GOODNIGHT DALLAS - Carlene Carter
• HEARTACHE BIG AS TEXAS - Ricky Van Shelton
• HEAVEN'S ALMOST AS BIG AS TEXAS - Dale Watson
• HELLO TEXAS - Jimmy Buffett.
• HE'S IN DALLAS - Linda Davis
• HOME IN SAN ANTONE - Red Foley; Willie Nelson
• HOME SWEET TEXAS HOME -
• HOME TO TEXAS - Cornell Hurd Band
• HOUSTON - The Gatlin Brothers
• HOUSTON - Dean Martin
• HOUSTON SOLUTION - Ronnie Milsap
• HUSTLED DOWN IN TEXAS - Johnny Winter
• I CAN'T SEE TEXAS FROM HERE - George Strait
• I'D TWO STEP ACROSS TEXAS - Don McRay
• IF YOU'RE GOING TO PLAY IN TEXAS - Alabama
• I LEFT MY HEART IN TEXAS - Moon Mullican
• I LIKE TEXAS - Pat Green.
• I LOVE TEXAS - Michael Balou
• I LOVE TEXAS MORE THAN YOU - David Price
• I'LL TAKE TEXAS - Clint Black; Vince Gill.
• IS ANYBODY GOING TO SAN ANTONE - Texas Tornados
• YOU HAVE TO HAVE A FIDDLE IN THE BAND- Alabama
• IT HURTS AS MUCH IN TEXAS - Ricky Van Shelton & George Jones.
• I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE (IN TEXAS) - Brian Burns
• I WISH DALLAS WAS IN TENNESSEE.
• LA GRANGE - ZZ Top
• LEAVIN' AMARILLO - Billy Joe Shaver
• LEAVIN' TEXAS - Jerry Jeff Walker.
• LIVING IN THE LONESTAR STATE -
• LIVINGSTON SATURDAY NIGHT - Jimmy Buffet
• LETS SING ANOTHER STUPID TEXAS SONG - Austin Lounge Lizards
• LONESTAR - Willie Nelson.
• LONESTAR ALLEY -
• LONESTAR BLUES - Delbert McClinton
• LONE STAR STATE OF MIND - Nanci Griffith
• LONG TALL TEXAN - Lyle Lovett.
• LONG TEXAS HIGHWAY - Eddie Collins
• LUBBOCK IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR.
• LUCKENBACH, TEXAS - Willie and Waylon
• MEMORIES OF EAST TEXAS - Michelle Shocked
• MILES AND MILES OF TEXAS - Asleep at the Wheel
• MINERAL WELLS - Tom Russell
• (MY HEART IS) TEXAS TO A "T" - Michael Martin Murphey
• MY HOMETOWN - Charlie Robison.
• MY SWEET TEXAS BLUEBONNET QUEEN - Hank Snow.
• MY FIRST TASTE OF TEXAS - Ed Bruce
• MY TEXAS SWEETHEART - Will Carter (Montana Slim)
• NORTHEAST TEXAS WOMEN - Willis Alan Ramsey - also - Jerry Jeff Walker
• OFF TO TEXAS - Eddie Collins
• PECOS PROMENADE - Tanya Tucker.
• RAISED ON TEXAS MUSIC - Eddie Collins
• RED RIVER VALLEY - Johnny Bond
• REMEMBER THE ALAMO - George Strait
• ROLLING STONE FROM TEXAS - Don Walser
• SAN ANTONIO - Pure Prairie League
• SAN ANTONIO GIRL - Lyle Lovett
• SAN ANTONIO LIGHTS - Cadillac Cowboys.
• SAN ANTONIO ROSE- Bob Wills
• SAN ANTONIO STROLL - Tanya Tucker.
• SANTA GOT LOST IN TEXAS - Jeff Carson.
• SCREW YOU, WE'RE FROM TEXAS - Ray Wylie Hubbard.
• SOMEWHERE IN TEXAS - Willie Nelson
• SONGS ABOUT TEXAS - Pat Green
• SON OF TEXAS - Chuck Drum
• SOUTH OF ROUND ROCK, TEXAS - Dale Watson
• STARS OVER TEXAS - Tracy Lawrence
• STILL A LOT OF LOVE IN SAN ANTONE - Johnny Rodgriguez
• STILL THE KING - Bob Wills
• STREETS OF LAREDO - Marty Robbins.
• "T" FOR TEXAS (BLUE YODEL NR 1). Jimmie Rodgers
• THAT'S WHAT I LIKE ABOUT TEXAS - Dale Watson
• TEXARKANA - R.E.M.
• TEXAS - David James
• TEXAS - The Highwaymen
• TEXAS AND NORMA JEAN - Brooks and Dunn.
• TEXAS BLUES - Bob Wills
• TEXAS BLUEBONNETS - Laurie Lewis
• TEXAS BOOGIE - Dale Watson
• TEXAS BOUND AND FLYIN' - Jerry Reed
• TEXAS BOUND TRAIN - Cory Morrow.
• TEXAS COOKIN' - Guy Clark
• TEXAS COWBOY - Hank Snow
• TEXAS COWBOY NIGHT - Mel Tillis
• TEXAS DANCE HALL GIRL.
• TEXAS EAGLE - Steve Earle
• TEXAS ECHO - David Ball
• TEXAS FIDDLE SONG - Merle Haggard
• TEXAS FLOOD - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble.
• TEXAS FLYER - Freddie King
• TEXAS GAL - Michael Ballew
• TEXAS HOME - Kimberly M'Carver
• TEXAS I LOVE YOU - Marty Robbins
• TEXAS IN MY SOUL - Tex Williams
• TEXAS IN 1880 - Radney Foster.
• TEXAS IS BIGGER THAN IT USED TO BE - Mark Chestnut.
• TEXAS LULLABYE- David Allan Coe.
• TEXAS MOON - Gary P. Nunn
• TEXAS MORNING - Michael Martin Murphy
• TEXAS ON SATURDAY NIGHT - Willie Nelson.
• TEXAS, OUR TEXAS. (State Song)
• TEXAS PLAINS - Hank Snow
• TEXAS PLAYBOY RAG - Bob Wills
• TEXAS ON A SATURDAY NIGHT - Willie Nelson.
• TEXAS ON MY MIND - Django Walker; also Pat Green.
• TEXAS SIZED HEARTACHE - Joe Diffie
• TEXAS STANDARD TIME - Ricky Calmbach
• TEXAS SWING - Clay Walker
• TEXAS TIME - Chris Wall
• TEXAS TIME TRAVELIN' - Cory Morrow.
• TEXAS TORNADO - Tracy Lawrence.
• TEXAS TWIST - Roy Clark
• TEXAS TWO STEP - Bob Wills.
• TEXAS UPHERE TENNESSE - Billy Joe Shaver
• TEXAS (WHEN I DIE) - Tanya Tucker.
• TEXAS WOMEN (DON'T STAY LONELY LONG) Hank Williams Jr.
• TEXAS 46.
• TEXAS 1947 - Guy Clark
• THE BACKSIDE OF DALLAS.
• THE BLUES EYES IN TEXAS - Restless Heart
• THE DEVIL LIVES IN DALLAS - Rusty Wier.
• THE IDES OF TEXAS (Billie Sol Estes) - The Chad Mitchell Trio
• THE EYES OF TEXAS .(UT Song)
• (THEY ARE) PACKIN' HEAT DOWN IN TEXAS - Jim Bundy
• THERE IS A GIRL IN TEXAS - Trace Adkins
• THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING IN TEXAS - Ernest Tubb
• TOO MUCH TEXAS - Rhett Akins
• TOWN OF EL PASO.
• TRUCK STOP IN LA GRANGE.
• TWO MORE TEARS IN TEXAS TONIGHT - Cooder Graw
• UNDER THE "X" IN TEXAS - Johnny Gimble
• WACKOS FROM WACO.
• WALTZ ACROSS TEXAS - Ernest Tubb.
• WAY BACK TEXAS - Pat Green
• WAY DOWN TEXAS WAY - Asleep at the Wheel.
• WELCOME TO TEXAS (NOW DON'T FORGET TO GO BACK HOME) - Brian Burns
• WEST TEXAS HIGHWAY - Lyle Lovett
• WEST TEXAS HOLIDAY - Pat Green
• WEST TEXAS OUTLAW - Kyle Everett
• WEST TEXAS PLAINS - Rosie Flores
• WEST TEXAS SKY - Billy Stone
• WEST TEXAS SUN - Nanci Griffith
• WEST TEXAS WALTZ - Emmy Lou Harris, Billy Joe Shaver
• WEST TEXAS WIND - Grass Routes Bluegrass Band
• WHAT I LIKE ABOUT TEXAS - Gary P. Nunn
• WHEN DEBBIE'S BACK FROM TEXAS -Stina Nordenstam
• WHEN IT'S TWILIGHT OVER TEXAS - Wilf Carter
• WILD TEXAS WIND - Willie Nelson
• WINDS OF TEXAS - Rusty Ellis
• WOMAN DOWN IN TEXAS - Chris Cain Band
• WOMAN IN TEXAS - Jerry Jeff Walker
• X'S FROM DOWN IN TEXAS - Montana Slim
• YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS- Bob Wills
• YOAKUM TEXAS BLUES - Lucius Parr
• YOU CAN'T GET THE HELL OUT OF TEXAS - George Jones
• YOU CAN'T TAKE TEXAS OUT OF ME - Roy Rogers
• YOU'LL NEVER TAKE TEXAS OUT OF ME - Waylon Jennings
• YOU'RE FROM TEXAS - ASleep at the Wheel
• YOUR NOT FROM TEXAS - Lyle Lovett.
• 100% TEXAN - Kevin Fowler.

Actually if you look at wiki you'll see that there are more songs about california. 79 pages on california and two subcategories with 30 in one and 11 in the other. So sorry Texas, I have nothing against you but California state pride. I really like the two songs at the end of your list just before 100% Texan. :)

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*actually Georgia does

• Sweet Georgia Brown-The Harlem Globetrotters wouldn't be the same without it.
• The Devil Went Down to Georgia-Charley Daniels' third charted hit, it went to number three in the fall of 1979.
• The Night The Lights went out in Georgia-Vicki Lawrence's only charted hit, it was Number 1 for two weeks in March, 1973.
• Midnight Train to Georgia-As amazing as this sounds, the only number one hit for Gladys Knight and the Pipps. It hit the top of the charts in September, 1973, and stayed there for 2 weeks. Originally titled "Midnight Plane to Houston".
• Rainy night in Georgia-The last of Brook Benton's hits, it reached Number 4 during the spring of 1970.
• Georgia(on my mind)-Our State Song-The official version is the one Ray Charles did in 1960. It was his 5th Top 40 release and first Number 1 single. It hit the top of the charts on October 10, 1960 and stayed there for 1 week.

At A Georgia Camp Meeting - The Swedanes

Back to Georgia - Loggins & Messina

Bringing In The Georgia Mail - Norman Blake

Burn, Georgia, Burn - Alabama

Don't Want To Die In Georgia - Brewer & Shipley

Georgia - Acker Bilk

Georgia - Boz Scaggs

Georgia - Carolyn Dawn Johnson

Georgia - Coinbird

Georgia - Kilo

Georgia - The Righteous Brothers

Georgia Blues - Bill Helms and His Upson County Band

Georgia Grind - Louis Armstrong

Georgia In A Jug - Johnny Paycheck

Georgia It's On - Pastor Troy

Georgia Lee - Tom Waits

Georgia Mail - Lonesome River Band

Georgia On A Fast Train - Billy Joe Shaver

Georgia Overdrive - Fred Eaglesmith

Georgia Peach - Acoustic Alchemy

Georgia Peaches - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Georgia Rae - John Hiatt

Georgia Rag - Blind Willie McTell

Georgia Rain - Joshua Kadison

Georgia Rhythm - Atlanta Rhythm Section

Georgia Rose - David Grisman

Georgia Swing - Jelly Roll Morton

Georgia Women - R.L. Burnside

Georgia Yellow Hammers - The Moonshine Hollow Band

Georgia's Song - The Wiggles

Glory, Glory to Ole' Georgia - Lewis Grizzard

Going Back To Georgia - Nanci Griffith

Gonna Send You Back To Georgia - Gov't Mule

I'm Goin' To Georgia - Tenneva Ramblers

Macon Georgia Blue - Jeff Healy Band

Macon, Georgia County Line - Wiskeytown

Marching Through Georgia - 97th Regimental String Band

My Little Georgia Rose - Ricky Scaggs

Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia - Jimmy Rodgers

Rambling Wreck From Georgia Tech - Dave Pell Octet

Slow Train Through Georgia - Special Concensus

Southern Fried Chicken in Macon, Georgia - St. Cotton

Start Over Georgia - Collin Raye

Tall Trees in Georgia - Eva Cassidy

The Devil Came Back To Georgia - Johnny Cash & C. Daniels

The Moon Over Georgia - Shenandoah

Ticket Back To Georgia - Head East

Walkin' Back To Georgia - Jim Croce

Watermelon Time In Georgia - Lefty Frizzell

Why Georgia - John Mayer

Either Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, or Texas.

Answer 2

Georgia, people!

Answer 3

New York, of course.

Answer 4

San Francisco

Answer 5

Tennessee is my guess

Answer 6

Texas

Answer 7

Alabama

Answer 8

texax

Answer 9

Oklahoma