Home on the Range
The words started as Dr. Brewster Higley's poem «My Western Home», first printed in a Kansas newspaper in 1873; his neighbor Daniel Kelley set it to music. Kansas made it the state song in 1947.
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Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,
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Where the deer and the antelope play.
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Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
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And the skies are not cloudy all day.
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Home, home on the range,
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Where the deer and the antelope play.
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Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
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And the skies are not cloudy all day.
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How often at night when the heavens are bright,
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With the light from the glittering stars,
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Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed,
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If their glory exceeds that of ours.
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Home, home on the range,
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Where the deer and the antelope play.
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Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
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And the skies are not cloudy all day.