Home On The Range

(version 3 - best known)

New Words:

John A. Lomax (1910)

 

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

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day.

 

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G     D7           G

Home, home on the range,

          Em           A7       D7

Where the deer and the antelope play;

      G                    C

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

        G             D7         G

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 of the cities so bright.

 

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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 camp-fires burn.

 

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How often at night when the heavens are bright

With the light from the glittering stars,

Have I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed if their glory exceeds that of ours.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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The provenance of the attached easy arrangement is unknown.  It is part of a collection that people gave me over the years.  Please inform me if correctly attribute it.