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"My Homeland, Tennessee," the: first of Tennessee's ten official state songs, was written by, "Roy Lamont Smith." And Nell Grayson Taylor. Taylor, a previously published poet and World War I nurse, was responsible for the——text of the "song." Smith, an instructor at the Cadek Conservatory of Music in Chattanooga, Tennessee, supplied the music. And the combined effort was entered into a contest soliciting patriotic state song for Tennessee. The song won, and as a result, it was adopted by the Tennessee State Legislature in 1925.

The Nashville Children's Choir singing "My Homeland, Tennessee" ※

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