HOUSE BILL 81

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Gloria C. Vaughn

AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC AFFAIRS; DECLARING A STATE COWBOY SONG.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. STATE COWBOY SONG.--The words and music of the song written by Calvin Boles and R.D. Blankenship and entitled "New Mexico" are declared to be the official state cowboy song subject to the state's acquisition of ownership and copyright of the song. The words are:

     First verse:

     A land where the cowboys and Indians still roam,

     A land where the Spanish and Anglos call home,

     Where missiles are flying, Spanish mission bells toll,

     Making a picture of the new and the old.

     Chorus:

     Green valleys in the deserts, apple trees on a hill,

     And there in the canyon stands an old water mill;

     A land of enchantment where wildflowers grow,

     These are the treasures of New Mexico.

     Second verse:

     A land where the pine tree and small pinons grow,

     A land with its black bear and mountains of snow,

     And there through the greasewood the chaparral run,

     While yuccas are bloomin' by adobe walls in the sun.

     Chorus:

     Green valleys in the deserts, apple trees on a hill,

     And there in the canyon stands an old water mill;

     A land of enchantment where wildflowers grow,

     These are the treasures of New Mexico.

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