and to the motto for which it stands：
A state，under god，united in purpose and ideals，
confident that justice shall prevail（流行，盛行）for all of those abiding here．”
State Song州歌
Give Me Louisiana
Give me Louisiana，
The state where I was born
The state of snowy cotton，
The best I’ve ever known；
A state of sweet magnolias，
And Creole melodies（［音］小旋律歌曲）
Oh give me Louisiana，
The state where I was born
Oh what sweet old memories
The mossy（青苔状的）old oaks bring
It brings us the story of our Evangeline
A state of old tradition，
of old plantation days
Makes good old Louisiana
The sweetest of all states．
Give me Louisiana，
A state prepared to share
That good old southern custom，
Hospitality（好客，盛情）so rare；
A state of fruit and flowers，
Of sunshine and spring showers
Oh give me Louisiana，
The state where I was born
Its woodlands，Its marshes（湿地，沼泽地）
Where humble（朴实无华的）trappers live
Its rivers，Its valleys，
A place to always give
A state where work is pleasure，
With blessings in full measure
Makes good old Louisiana
The dearest of all states．
Give me Louisiana，
Where love birds always sing
In shady lanes（（乡间）小路）or pastures（草原，牧场），
The cowbells（母牛的颈铃）softly ring；
The softness of the sunset
Brings peace and blissful（有福的）rest
Oh give me Louisiana，
The state where I was born
The smell of sweet clover
Which blossoms everywhere
The fresh new mown（割下的）hay（干草）
Where children romp（顽皮嬉戏）and play
A state of love and laughter，
A state for all here after
Makes good old Louisiana
The grandest of all states．
You Are My Sunshine
The other night，dear
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms．
When I awoke，dear
I was mistaken
And I hung my head and cried；
CHORUS
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are grey
You’ll never know dear
How much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away．
I’ll always love you
And make you happy
If you will only say the same
But if you leave me
To love another
You’ll regret it all some day；
CHORUS
You told me once，dear
You really loved me
And no one else could come between
But now you’ve left me
And love another
You have shattered all my dreams；
CHORUS
Louisiana my Louisiana
the place where I was borne．
White fields of cotton
—green fields clover，
the best fishing
and long tall corn；
CHORUS
Crawfish gumbo and jambalaya（什锦菜肴）
the biggest shrimp（小虾）and sugar cane（［植］甘蔗），
the finest oysters（［动］牡蛎，蚝）
and sweet strawberries
from Toledo Bend to New Orleans；
CHORUS
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．The world famous “Mardi Gras”is celebrated in New Orleans．Mardi Gras is an ancient custom that originated in southern Europe．It celebrates food and fun just before the 40days of Lent：a Catholic time of prayer and sacrifice．
2．The Battle of New Orleans，which made Andrew Jackson a national hero，was fought two weeks after the War of 1812had ended and more than a month before the news of the war’s end had reached Louisiana．
3．Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV．
4．Baton Rouge hosted the 1983Special Olympics International Summer Games at LSU．
5．Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the United States；the building is 450feet tall with 34floors．
6．Louisiana is the only state in the union that does not have counties．Its political subdivisions are called parishes（教区）．
7．Louisiana is the only state with a large population of Cajuns（移居美国路易斯安那州的法人后裔），descendants of the Acadians who were driven out of Canada in the 1700s because they wouldn’t pledge allegiance to the King of England．
8．The Superdome in New Orleans is the worlds largest steel－constructed room unobstructed by posts．
Height：273feet（82．3meters），Diameter of Dome：680feet（210meters），Area of Roof：9．7acres，Interior Space：125，000，000cubic feet，Total floor footage：269，000sq．ft．（82，342sq．meters），Electrical Wiring：400miles（640kilometers）．
9．Metairie is home to the longest bridge over water in the world，the Lake Pontchartrain causeway（铺道）．The causeway connects Metairie with St．Tammany Parish on the North Shore．The causeway is 24miles long．
10．Louisiana is the only state that still refers to the Napoleonic Code in its state law．
11．Since 1835the New Orleans &Carrolliton Line is the oldest street railway line still in operation．
12．Saint Martin Parish is home to the world’s largest freshwater［淡水（不是海洋水的）］river basin，the Atchafalaya Basin；the basin provides nearly every type of outdoor recreational activity imaginable．
13．Breaux Bridge is known as the “Crawfish Capital of the World”．
14．The first American army to have African American officers was the confederate Louisiana Native Guards．The Corps d’Afrique at Port Hudson was sworn into service on September 27，1862．
15．In Louisiana，biting someone with your natural teeth is considered a ****** assault（攻击），but biting someone with your false teeth ［（整副的）假牙］is considered an aggravated assault．
16．The Saint Charles streetcar（路面电车）line in New Orleans and the San Francisco，California cable cars are the nation’s only mobile national monuments
17．Jennings is called the“Garden Spot of Louisiana”for it’s rich and productive farmland．Jennings sobriquet（假名，绰号）{nickname}became a “Northern Town on Southern Soil”．
18．Baton Rouge’s flag is a field of crimson representing the great Indian nations that once inhabited the area．
19．Money Magazine has rated Terrebonne Parish，in the heart of Cajun Country the best place to live in Louisiana for 3years in a row．
20．In 1718The French found New Orleans and marked “Cannes Brulee”on maps upriver（上游的）in the area known today as the City of Kenner．French for “Burnt Canes”，Cannes Brulee was a name given by explorers who observed natives burning cane to drive out wild game．
21．Between April 17，1862and May 18，186420major Civil War battles and engagements were fought on Louisiana soil．
22．In 1803the United States paid France 15million for the Louisiana Territory．828，000square miles of land west of the Mississippi River．The lands acquired stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border．Thirteen states were carved from the Louisiana Territory．The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States．
23．bayou：BUY－you n．a French name for slow－moving “river”．
