This song is available on Phil Rosenthal's This Land Is Your Land.
The authorship of this popular Western "home" song in uncertain, and has been the subject of several lawsuits. It was sung in Texas in the 1860's, and some of the lyrics may be based on a poem by a Kansas doctor and lawyer named Brewster Higley.
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.
How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light of the glittering stars
I stand there amazed and I ask as I gaze
Does their glory exceed that of ours?
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 and the zephyrs so free
And the breezes so balmy and light
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright
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.
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.
This song is available on Phil Rosenthal's This Land Is Your Land.
