After speaking with Rhonda Vincent at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, she told me, and I agreed, that Missouri needed a new state song. That night, I got woke up by a song idea that wouldn’t leave me alone and it turned into this song.

Thankfully, Ms Rhonda liked it enough to sing a verse on it with me!

Lyrics

Missouri

Written by
Kenny Ray Horton (featuring Rhonda Vincent)

VERSE 1
Where Mark Twain told the stories
Of Huckleberry Finn
Runnin round in those hills
I grew up in
Where the bluebirds fly
That taught me how to sing
And if you can’t show me
It doesn’t mean a thing
In Missouri

VERSE 2
It’s home to Harry S. Truman
And the Pony Express
That St. Louis arch
The Gateway to the West
It’s where Albert E. Brumley
Wrote “I’ll Fly Away”
Down by Big Sugar Creek
Where everybody goes to play
In Missouri

CHORUS
So sweet those flowers
On the dogwood trees
When I go home
You’ll find me
In Missouri

VERSE 3
That Kansas City BarBQ
I could eat my fill
Hear those sounds out of Branson
Echo through the hills
Back to Silver Dollar City
For a step back in time
All of this and so much more
In that home state of mine
of Missouri

CHORUS
So sweet those flowers
On the dogwood trees
When I go home
You’ll find me
In Missouri

VERSE 4 (Written for Rhonda Vincent)
I’m a Missouri girl
Tried and true
My souls on Sally Mountain
And my grass is blue
Martha White on the Opry
And my heart swells with pride
Cause when I’m introduced
They’ll say that I’m
From Missouri

CHORUS
So sweet those flowers
On the dogwood trees
When I go home
You’ll find me
In Missouri