Arkansas You Run Deep In Me

[Art_from_Ark]

"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 Granny]

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

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

[Art_from_Ark]

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

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

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]

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

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

[jis6255xe]

5. nvm

[Bryn]

6. Here's a funny tweet about this song

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

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Thanks for the laugh

That was funny

By the way, how was the protest at the State Capitol?

[Bryn]

8. It went well ...

let me know if you can see pictures. I will post own thread as soon as I can w/ more pictures.

http://wilchandler.com/arkansas-war-on-women-protest#.UU9ttEP8sIA.twitter

[Art_from_Ark]

9. Yes, I could see the pictures

It looks like you showed those legislators that you don't want to be kept "barefoot and pregnant"!