Home On The Range

(version 2)

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William & Mary Goodwin (1904)

 

    G                        C                       G            A7       D7

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play;

       G                 C                         G          D7         G

There, seldom is heard a discouraging word and the sky is not cloudy all day.

 

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  G       D7  G           Em           A7       D7

A home, a home, where the deer and the antelope play,

       G                    C                      G          D7         G

There, seldom is heard a discouraging word and the sky is not cloudy all day.

 

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Yes, give me the gleam of the swift mountain stream

And the place where no hurricane blows;

Oh, give me the park where the prairie dogs bark And the mountain all covered with snow.

 

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Oh, give me the hills and the ring of the drills

And the rich silver ore in the ground;

Yes, give me the gulch where the miner can sluice and the bright, yellow gold can be found.

 

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Oh, give me the mine where the prospectors find the gold in its own native land;

And the hot springs below where the sick people go

And camp on the banks of the Grande.

 

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Oh, give me the steed and the gun that I need to shoot game for my own cabin home;

Then give me the camp where the fire is the lamp and the wild Rocky Mountains to roam.

 

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Yes, give me the home where the prospectors roam -- their business is always alive

In these wild western hills, 'midst the ring of the drills,

Oh, there let me live till I die.

 

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