West Virginia State Song (Instrumental) West Virginia Hills

"The West Virginia Hills" is one of four of West Virginia's state songs. "The West Virginia Hills" was written in 1879 as a poem and put to music in 1885 by Henry Everett Engle. The song was made one of West Virginia's state songs in 1961. Chorus: Oh, the hills, beautiful hills, How I love those West Virginia hills! If o'er sea o'er land I roam, Still I'll think of happy home, And my friends among the West Virginia hills!