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Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts) Fri Feb 10, 2012, 10:59 PM Feb 2012

Arkansas You Run Deep In Me

"Arkansas You Run Deep In Me" was adopted as the state song in Arkansas' sesquicentennial year of 1986. The same year, AETN started showing this video set to the song as its nightly sign-off. It's bound to stir a few emotions in Arkansans, I think. It certainly does for me, especially when I see familiar scenes in it such as Pea Ridge National Military Park, the University of Arkansas, and the Ozark Mountains.

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Arkansas You Run Deep In Me (Original Post) Art_from_Ark Feb 2012 OP

AETN, the educational channel, used to sign off with that song before they Arkansas Granny Feb 2012 #1

When this song was adopted as the state anthem, Art_from_Ark Feb 2012 #2

I can honestly say I have never heard this song before - weird, eh? I was working two Hestia Feb 2012 #3

I mostly heard it as the sign-off for AETN Art_from_Ark Feb 2012 #4

nvm jis6255xe Feb 2012 #5

Here's a funny tweet about this song Bryn Mar 2013 #6

Thanks for the laugh Art_from_Ark Mar 2013 #7

It went well ... Bryn Mar 2013 #8

Yes, I could see the pictures Art_from_Ark Mar 2013 #9

Arkansas Granny

(31,828 posts)

1. AETN, the educational channel, used to sign off with that song before they

Reply to Art_from_Ark (Original post)

Fri Feb 10, 2012, 11:04 PM

Feb 2012

were on the air 24 hrs. I still get a lump in my throat when I hear it.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

2. When this song was adopted as the state anthem,

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 11, 2012, 07:49 AM

Feb 2012

I was assisting a University of Arkansas graduate student from Illinois with her research project. We were talking about this becoming the new state song, and she asked what the old song was, so I sang a few lines for her.

"Where the roses are in bloom and the sweet magnolia too
Where the jasmine is white and the fields are violet blue..."

"Where the JAZZMAN is WHITE!?!" she exclaimed. "Aren't there any *black* jazzmen in Arkansas?"

LOL

Hestia

(3,818 posts)

3. I can honestly say I have never heard this song before - weird, eh? I was working two

Reply to Art_from_Ark (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 02:12 PM

Feb 2012

jobs at that time, and must have missed it and have never been to anything where it was played. Boy, this video is certainly a snap-shot in time isn't it? Wow, the hair and makeup - what *were* we thinking?

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

4. I mostly heard it as the sign-off for AETN

Reply to Hestia (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 08:56 PM

Feb 2012

The Arkansas Gazette also published the lyrics when the song was adopted.
I don't remember hearing it anywhere else, though.

jis6255xe

(37 posts)

5. nvm

Reply to Art_from_Ark (Original post)

Tue Feb 21, 2012, 09:45 PM

Feb 2012

Bryn

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6. Here's a funny tweet about this song

Reply to Art_from_Ark (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 07:34 PM

Mar 2013

someone tweeted this to #arleg

Logic_Bomb ‏@AR_Logic_Bomb 24 Mar

Arkansas, you run deep in me...wait, no, sorry. That was just a trans-vaginal probe. #arleg #arprotest