I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us 
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Can you call the Captain Clitus? 
Logan, Grant, and Ronald Reagan 
In the grave with Xylophagan 
Do you know the [bad word]  
Sound the horn, address the city 

(Who will save it? Dedicate it? 
Who will praise [bad word] it for you?) 

We are awaken with the ax 
Night of the Living Dead at last 
They have begun to shake the dirt 
Wiping their shoulders from the earth 
I know, I know the nations past 
I know, I know [bad word] at last 
They tremble with the nervous thought 
Of having been, at last, forgot 

I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us 
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Can you call the Captain Clitus? 
B-U-D-A! Caledonia! S-E-C-O-R! Magnolia! 
B-I-R-D-S! And Kankakee! Evansville and Parker City 

Speaking their names, they shake the flag 
Waking the earth, it lifts and lags 
We see a thousand rooms to rest 
Helping us taste the bite of death 
I know, I know my time has passed 
I'm not so young, I'm not so fast 
I tremble with the nervous thought 
Of having been, at last, forgot 

I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us 
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Can you call the Captain Clitus? [bad word] and Potato Peelers! G-R-E-E-N ridge! Reeders 
M-C-V-E-Y! And Horace! E-N-O-S! Start the [bad word] 

Corn and Farms and Tombs in Lemmon 
Sailor Springs and all things feminine 
Centerville and Old Metropolis 
Shawneetownn, you trade and topple us 
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Hold your tongue and don't divide us 
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Land of God, you hold and guide us