The race to replace Pennsylvania’s state song

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The race to replace Pennsylvania’s state song

Russ Diamond has written you a song. You and 13 million other Pennsylvanians who have been living under the pall of an official commonwealth anthem so dull and uninspiring, critics say, it demands a government-sanctioned mulligan. Diamond, the Republican state representative from Lebanon County with a “hair band” background and a record imprint to his name, is one such critic, though he’s as diplomatic as possible about it. The current state son…