Nevada State Song, Home Means Nevada, by Mrs. Bertha Raffetto

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The Nevada State Song

Home Means Nevada
by Mrs. Bertha Raffetto

   Home means Nevada,
   Home means the hills,
   Home means the sage and the pines.
   Out by the Truckee's silvery rills.
   Out where the sun always shines.
   There is a land that l love the best,
   Fairer than all I can see.
   Right in the heart of the golden west,
   Home means Nevada to me.

The year was 1932, it was summer and Mrs. Raffetto had been asked, by the Nevada Native Daughters, to sing a song about Nevada at the annual picnic at Bowers Mansion. She completed "Home Means Nevada" at 4:00am on the day of the picnic and sang her composition that afternoon. The song was very well received and former Governor Roswell K. Colcord said to Mrs. Raffetto, "Honey, that's the prettiest Nevada Song that I have ever heard. It should be made the state song of Nevada!"

The song that Mrs. Raffetto sang that afternoon, "Home Means Nevada," did become the official state song of Nevada. It was adopted by the legislature on February 6, 1933. Read the interesting story behind the composition of "Home Means Nevada" written by Mrs. Bertha Raffetto in May, 1949.

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