They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh!

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 ghost community? 
Sound the horn, address the city 

(Who will save it? Dedicate it? 
Who will praise it? Commemorate 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 they rust 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? 
Comer and Potato Peelers! G-R-E-E-N ridge! Reeders 
M-C-V-E-Y! And Horace! E-N-O-S! Start the chorus 

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