It just haunts you the whole day long，
And you wander in dreams，back to Dixie，it seems，
When you hear that old song．
Hush a－bye，my baby，go to sleep on Mommy’s knee，
Journey back to Dixieland in dreams again with me；
It seems like your Mommy is there again，
And the old folks were strummin’that old refrain．
Way down in Missouri where I learned
this lullaby（催眠曲，摇篮曲），
When the stars were blinkin’and the moon was climbin’high，
Seems I hear voices low，as in days long ago
Singin’hush a－bye．
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．Missouri is known as the“Show Me State”．
2．The ’Show Me State’expression may have began in 1899when Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver stated，“I’m from Missouri and you’ve got to show me”．
3．The first successful parachute jump（跳伞）to be made from a moving airplane was made by Captain Berry at St．Louis，in 1912．
4．The most destructive tornado（旋风，龙卷风）on record occurred in Annapolis．In 3hours，it tore through the town on March 18，1925leaving a 980－foot wide trail of demolished buildings，uprooted trees，and overturned cars．It left 823people dead and almost 3，000injured．
5．At the St．Louis World’s Fair in 1904，Richard Blechyden，served tea with ice and invented iced tea．
6．Also，at the St．Louis World’s Fair in 1904，the ice cream cone was invented．An ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a waffle（无聊话，动听而无意义的话）vendor to help by rolling up waffles to hold ice cream．
7．Missouri ties with Tennessee as the most neighborly state in the union，bordered by 8states．
8．The state animal is the Mule．
9．St．Louis；is also called，“The Gateway to the West”and “Home of the Blues”．
10．Warsaw holds the state record for the low temperature of －40degrees on February 13，1905．
11．Warsaw holds the state record for the high temperature recorded，118degrees on July 14，1954．
12．State bird——native Bluebird March 30，1927
13．State insect—honey bee July 3，1985
14．Mozarkite was adopted as the official state rock on July 21，1967，by the 74th General Assembly．
15．On July 21，1967，the mineral galena（［矿］方铅矿）was adopted as the official mineral of Missouri．
16．The crinoid（海百合类）became the state’s official fossil（化石）on June 16，1989，after a group of Lee’s Summit school students worked through the legislative process to promote it as a state symbol．
17．On June 20，1955，the flowering dogwood（山茱萸）（Cornus Florida L．）became Missouri’s official tree．
18．The “Missouri Waltz”became the state song under an act adopted by the General Assembly on June 30，1949
19．The present Capitol completed in 1917and occupied the following year is the third Capitol in Jefferson City and the sixth in Missouri history．The first seat of state government was housed in the Mansion House，Third and Vine Streets，St．Louis；the second was in the Missouri Hotel，Maine and Morgan Streets，also in St．Louis．St．Charles was designated as temporary capital of the state in 1821and remained the seat of government until 1826when Jefferson City became the permanent capital city．
20．The first Capitol in Jefferson City burned in 1837and a second structure completed in 1840burned when the dome was struck by lightning on February 5，1911．
21．Kansas City has more miles of boulevards（〈美〉林荫大道）than Paris and more fountains than any city except Rome．
22．Kansas City has more miles of freeway per capita than any metro area with more than 1million residents．
23．Jefferson National Expansion Memorial consists of the Gateway Arch，the Museum of Westward Expansion，and St．Louis’Old Courthouse．During a nationwide competition in 1947－48，architect Eero Saarinen’s inspired design for a 630－foot stainless steel arch was chosen as a perfect monument to the spirit of the western pioneers．Construction of the Arch began in 1963and was completed on October 28，1965．
The Arch has foundations sunken 60feet into the ground，and is built to withstand（抵挡，经受住）earthquakes and high winds．It sways up to one inch in a 20mph wind，and is built to sway up to 18inches．
