West Virginia Moon

1.-
From the world's broadcasting station
As we hear the crooners croon,
Every state in the great nation
Claims our West Virginia moon.
2.-
Long in the silence have we waited
As each state has filed a claim,
But for us she was created.
And shes' ours just the same.
3.-
Listen as we try to tell
How a mountain man one morning soon
Left his home to hunt his bell cow,
And at night was on the moon.
4.-
Up the mountain side he followed,
Though the path was rough and steep,
And in vain for her he hollered
For she made one mighty leap.
5.-
'Tis no myth or fairy story,
And our boys are told each night,
How this cow won fame and glory
When she made this non-stop flight.
6.-
But this West Virginia farmer
Made his last round-up that day,
But he reached the moon in safety
Every night he looks this way.
7.-
From over the moon the old folks say-
The old cow came from the sky,
She left her milk in the Milky Way,
And forever was bone dry.

-Walter C. Harris
Pax West Virginia
1876-1936