State Songs of the USA - Home on the Range [Kansas]

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 sky is not clouded all day.

CHORUS

A home, a home (on the range) 1

Where the deer and the antelope play,

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

And the sky is not clouded all day.

Oh, give me a land where the bright diamond sand

Throws its light from the glittering stream

Where glideth along the graceful white swan

Like a maid in her heavenly dream.

CHORUS

Oh, give me the gale of the Solomon Vale,

Where life streams with buoyancy flow,

On the banks of the Beaver, where seldom if ever

Any poisonous herbage doth grow.

CHORUS

How often at night, when the heavens were 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

I love the wild flowers in this bright land of ours;

I love the wild curlew's shrill scream;

The bluffs and white rocks and antelope flocks

That graze on the mountains so green.

CHORUS

The air is so pure, the breeze is so fine,

The zephyrs so balmy and light,

I would not exchange my home here to range

Forever in azures so bright.

1. "on the range" was missing in the original lyrics of the chorus but added later by the performers as the song is known under this title

• Artist:Raymond Crooke