Yet another instance where lack of access to a turntable is preventing me from finding the lyrics. I have a recording of Fifty Nifty United States made in 1976 by the Monroe Melotones, my 6th grade choir. When we performed it live, each of the fifty of us held up a sign with the name of the state as we sang the name of that state. I had North Dakota. Whoever was in the center at the back row always got Minnesota, and had to wave it around for quite a while at the end.

Fifty Nifty United States
From thirteen original colonies
Fifty Nifty stars on the flag that
billows so beautifully in the breeze

[missing verse??? maybe??]

Shout em, scout em
tell all about em
One by one
til we've given a day
to every state that's
In the USA
In the USA

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California
Colorado, Connecticut. Delaware, Florida, Georgia
Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland
Massachussets, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey
New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio
Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont
Virgina, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

North South
East West
Oooh

In our cool, considered, objective, unprejudiced opinion,
[your state's name here] is the best
Of the fifty nifty United States
from Thirteen original colonies

my memory gives out here. There may or may not be more.

I'll bet the sheet music is available at a library or somewhere.

Nora