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(As sung by the DeMoss family, official song-writers of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893.)

I'm thinking now of a beautiful land,

Oregon, Oregon;

With rivers and valleys and mountains grand,

Oregon, sweet Oregon;

From the mountain peak all covered with snow,

A swift crystal streamlet ever doth flow

By the home of my youth, which I shall adore,

Oh! Oregon, my home.

Chorus—

Oh Oregon, sweet Oregon,

My native home, I long for thee;

My native home, I long for thee.

I think of the forests and the prairies wide,

Oregon, Oregon;

The mines, the fish, and the ocean tide;

Oregon, sweet Oregon;

Where the mighty Columbia rolls down to the sea;

And while the pines are echoing in the breeze,

Like a beautiful dream to my memory comes

Sweet Oregon my home.

I long to dwell in my mountain home,

Oregon, Oregon;

Away from thy vales I shall never roam,

Oregon, sweet Oregon;