Talk: List of U.S. state songs

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Removed the following:

I'm From New Jersey, New Jersey, My Home, and Born to Run by native composer Bruce Springsteen are unofficial songs that reflect the state)

If NJ has no state song, are these three anything other than someone's idea of what might represent the state? I'm listening to "Born to Run" right now and I have no idea what the direct connection is to NJ (aside from Springsteen being a New Jerseyian), and if I didn't hate NJ, I might actually be offended. The singer of the song is happy in spite of his location (which certainly could be NJ, though there's no evidence of that); since no other state has a song which describes it as "a runaway American dream", full of "cages on Highway 9" (is that in NJ?); "this town rips the bones from your back", "this town is a death trap" and then the chorus, "tramps like us, baby we were born to run". The singer is trying like hell to leave NJ. While I and the author may think this is an appropriate song for that shithole, it's hardly NPOV and I seriously doubt the New Jersey legislature would even discuss for two minutes whether or not to make it an official state song. I'm not familiar with the other two, but any one person's choice of what should be the state song is not neutral. If these have even an iota of official recognition, it's okay to put them back, but I doubt they do. Tokerboy 04:37 Nov 23, 2002 (UTC)