Home on the Range (song)
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Home on the Range is the state of Kansas State Song. The lyrics were written in the early 1870s by Brewster Higley, who was a doctor in Smith County. The music was written by Daniel Kelley.
- Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam,
- Where the deer and the antelope play,
- Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
- And the skies are not cloudy all day.
Chorus:
- Home, home on the range,
- Where the deer and the antelope play,
- Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
- And the skies are not cloudy all day.
- Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free,
- The breezes so balmy and light,
- That I would not exchange my home on the range
- For all the cities so bright.
Chorus
- Oh, give me a land where the bright diamond sand
- Flows leisurely down the stream;
- Where the graceful white swan goes gliding along
- Like a maid in a heavenly dream.
Chorus
- The red man was pressed from this part of the West,
- He's likely no more to return
- To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever
- Their flickering campfires burn.
Chorus
- How often at night when the heavens are bright
- With the light of the glittering stars,
- Have I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed
- If their glory exceeds that of ours.
Chorus
- Oh, I love these wild flowers in this dear land of ours;
- The curlew I love to hear scream;
- And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks
- That graze on the mountain-tops green.
Chorus
- Then I would not exchange my home on the range,
- Where the deer and the antelope play;
- Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
- And the skies are not cloudy all day.
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References
Smith Center, Kansas History (http://www.ukans.edu/~hersite/kcn-6/smithctr/smithctrhist.html)
