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The Louisiana State Environmental Song

The Gifts of Earth

words and music by Frances LeBeau

    See the world around you,
    All the wonders of the land,
    The woods and fields and flowers,
    Sunny skies and seas and sands.

    It's a gift for all the people,
    To live in this great land,
    Where the beauty all around us,
    Teaches us to understand ...

    That the gifts of earth are in our hands.
    To life we hold the key.
    So let's clean America, make our land
    A home for you and me.

    Take a look around you,
    At the wonders of the land.
    Think about tomorrow.
    Take the time to understand ...

    That the gifts of earth are in our hands.
    To life we hold the key.
    So let's clean America, make our land
    A home for you and me.

Adoption of State Environmental Song

The song, "The Gifts of Earth", words and music by Frances LeBeau, was adopted as the official state environmental song of Louisiana in 1990.

Louisiana Revised Statutes

The following information is excerpted from the Louisiana Revised Statutes, Title 49, Section 155.2. The words are included within the statute.

TITLE 49. STATE ADMINISTRATION
PART VIII. STATE SYMBOLS AND DISPLAY OF FLAGS
SECTION 155.2

§155.2. State environmental song There shall be, and is, hereby adopted and established as the official state environmental song for the state of Louisiana, a musical composition, with lyrics and music by Frances LeBeau of East Carroll Parish, and entitled, "The Gifts of Earth"; the said lyrics reading as follows:

    See the world around you,
    All the wonders of the land,
    The woods and fields and flowers,
    Sunny skies and seas and sands.

    It's a gift for all the people,
    To live in this great land,
    Where the beauty all around us,
    Teaches us to understand...

    That the gifts of earth are in our hands.
    To life we hold the key.
    So let's clean America, make our land
    A home for you and me.

    Take a look around you,
    All the wonders of the land.
    Think about tomorrow.
    Take the time to understand...

    That the gifts of earth are in our hands.
    To life we hold the key.
    So let's clean America, make our land
    A home for you and me.

    Acts 1990, No. 1070, §1.

Source: Louisiana State Legislature, (http://legis.state.la.us), November 30, 2004
Source: State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols by Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer, Copyright 2002
Source: State Songs America, Edited by M.J. Bristow, Copyright 2000
Source: State Names, Flags, Seals, Songs, Birds, Flowers, and Other Symbols by George Earlie Shankle, Ph.D., Copyright 1938

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