Home on the Range (song)
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.
Chorus.
Media
References
Smith Center, Kansas History
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