1.
You asked what land I love the best,
Iowa, ’tis Iowa,
The fairest State of all the west,
Iowa, O! Iowa.
From yonder Misissippi’s stream
To where Missouri’s waters gleam
O! fair it is as poet’s dream,
Iowa, in Iowa.
2.
See yonders fields of tasseled corn,
Iowa, in Iowa,
Where plenty fills her golden horn,
Iowa, in Iowa.
See how her wond’rous praries shine
To yonder sunset’s purpling line,
O! happy land, O! land of mine,
Iowa, O! Iowa.
3.
And she has maids whose laughing eyes,
Iowa, O! Iowa,
To him whose loves were Paradise,
Iowa, O! Iowa.
O! happiest fate that e’er was known,
Such eyes to shine for one alone,
To call such beauty all his own.
Iowa, O! Iowa.
4.
Go read the story of thy past,
Iowa, O! Iowa,
What glorious deeds, what fame thou hast!
Iowa, O! Iowa.
So long as time’s great cycle runs,
Or nations weep their fallen ones,
Thou’lt not forget thy patriot sons,
Iowa, O! Iowa.