I Love You, California

I Love You, California (рус. Я люблю тебя, Калифорния) — официальная песня штата Калифорния. Автор слов к песне — портной из Лос-Анджелеса Френсис Бернард Силвервуд (1863-1924). Композитор — Абрахам Франклин Франкенштейн (1873-1934), ставший в будущем дирижером оркестра театра Орфей. Авторские права защищены Силвервудом в 1913 году.

Текст песни (англ.)

I Love You, California

I куплет:

I love you, California, you're the greatest state of all.

I love you in the winter, summer, spring and in the fall.

I love your fertile valleys; your dear mountains I adore.

I love your grand old ocean and I love her rugged shore.

Припев:

Where the snow crowned Golden Sierras

Keep their watch o'er the valleys bloom,

It is there I would be in our land by the sea,

Every breeze bearing rich perfume.

It is here nature gives of her rarest. It is Home Sweet Home to me,

And I know when I die I shall breathe my last sigh

For my sunny California.

II куплет:

I love your red-wood forests - love your fields of yellow grain.

I love your summer breezes and I love your winter rain.

I love you, land of flowers; land of honey, fruit and wine.

I love you, California; you have won this heart of mine.

III куплет:

I love your old gray Missions - love your vineyards stretching far.

I love you, California, with your Golden Gate ajar.

I love your purple sun-sets, love your skies of azure blue.

I love you, California; I just can't help loving you.

IV куплет:

I love you, Catalina, you are very dear to me.

I love you, Tamalpais, and I love Yosemite.

I love you, Land of Sunshine, Half your beauties are untold.

I loved you in my childhood, and I'll love you when I'm old.