SOUTH CAROLINA
"SMILING FACES, BEAUTIFUL PLACES"

The song playing is our State song, "Carolina".

Acting on the memorial of the South Carolina Daughters of the American 
Revolution that the patriotic song "Carolina," written by Henry Timrod, 
South Carolina's most beloved poet, be set to music by Miss Anne Custis Burgess, 
and be made "legally the State Song." 
The General Assembly, on February 11, 1911, adopted 
Senator W.L. Mauldin's Concurrent Resolution that it "be accented 
and declared to be the State Song of South Carolina."

"Carolina"
Written by Henry Timrod
Composed by Anne Custis Burgess

Hold up the glories of thy dead;
Say how thy elder children bled,
And point to Eutaw's battle-bed.
Carolina! Carolina!

Throw thy bold banner to the breeze!
Front with thy ranks the threatening seas
Like thine own proud armorial trees,
Carolina! Carolina!

Thy skirts indeed the foe may part,
Thy robe be pierced with sword and dart,
They shall not touch thy noble heart,
Carolina! Carolina!

Girt with such wills to do and bear,
Assured in right, and mailed in prayer,
Thou wilt not bow thee to despair,
Carolina! Carolina!


South Carolina Flag History

Asked by the Revolutionary Council of Safety in the fall of 
1775 to design a flag for the use of South Carolina troops, Col. 
William Moultrie chose a blue which matched the color of 
their uniforms and a crescent which reproduced the silver
 emblem worn on the front of their caps. The palmetto tree 
was added later to represent Moultrie's heroic defense of 
the palmetto-log fort on Sullivan's Island against the attack 
of the British fleet on June 28, 1776.

Pledge To The South Carolina Flag
I salute the flag of South Carolina and pledge to the Palmetto state,
love, loyalty and faith.

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