Song 26 in Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors · Song 29 in Ukulele for Beginners

Home on the Range

Also known as: A Home on the Range, My Western Home

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For Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors.

Slow (70% speed) (1:28)
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Play-along (1:03)
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For Ukulele for Beginners.

Slow (70% speed) (1:28)
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Normal speed (1:02)
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Play-along (1:02)
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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.
Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play; Where
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.
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.
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.

Music: Daniel E. Kelley (1843–1905)
Words: Brewster M. Higley (1823–1911)
First published: Words 1873 (Smith County Pioneer, Kansas, as "My Western Home"); words and tune in John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910)
Copyright: Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.