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Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Indianapolis, Indiana
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And Columbus is the capital of Ohio
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There's Montgomery, Alabama, south of Helena, Montana
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Then there's Denver, Colorado, under Boise, Idaho

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Texas has Austin, then we go north
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To Massachusetts' Boston, and Albany, New York
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Tallahassee, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee

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Trenton's in New Jersey, north of Jefferson, Missouri
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You've got Richmond in Virginia; South Dakota has Pierre
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Harrisburg's in Pennsylvania and Augusta's up in Maine
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And here is Providence, Rhode Island, next to Dover, Delaware

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Concord, New Hampshire, just a quick jaunt
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To Montpelier, which is up in Vermont
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Hartford's in Connecticut, so pretty in the fall
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And Kansas has Topeka; Minnesota has St Paul

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Juneau's in Alaska and there's Lincoln in Nebraska
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And it's Raleigh out in North Carolina and then
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There's Madison, Wisconsin, and Olympia in Washington
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Phoenix, Arizona, and Lansing, Michigan

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Here's Honolulu; Hawaii's a joy
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Jackson, Mississippi, and Springfield, Illinois
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South Carolina with Columbia down the way
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And Annapolis in Maryland on Chesapeake Bay

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Cheyenne is in Wyoming and perhaps you make your home in
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Salt Lake City out in Utah, where the buffalo roam
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Atlanta's down in Georgia, and there's Bismarck, North Dakota
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And you can live in Frankfort in your old Kentucky home

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Salem in Oregon; from there we join
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Little Rock in Arkansas; Iowa's got Des Moines
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Sacramento, California; Oklahoma and its city
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Charleston, West Virginia, and Nevada, Carson City

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That's all the capitals there are!