This is the official state song of Kansas. The song may have been in the public domain for years. But the words are usually attributed to a Kansas doctor named Brewster Higley and the melody to a Kansas carpenter named Dan Kelly. Dr. Higley died in 1911 and is buried at Shawnee, Okla.
Home on the Range
by Dr. Brewster Higley & Dan Kelly
With guitar chords1. Oh [D] give me a /home where the [G] buf-fa-lo roam,
Where the [D] deer and the / an –te-lope [A] play, --
Where [D] sel-dom is /heard a dis- [G] cour-ag-ing word
And the [D] skies are not [A] clou-dy all [D] day.CHORUS:
Home, [A] home on the [D] range, --
Where the /deer and the /an-te-lope [A] play
Where [D] sel-dom is /heard a dis- [G] cour-ag-ing word
And the [D] skies are not [A] clou-dy all [D] day.2. The [D] red man was /pressed from this [G] part of the West,
And [D] he’s likely no more to [A] return
To the [D] banks of Red /River where [G] seldom if ever
Their [D] flickering [A] campfires [D] burn.3. How [D] often at /night /when the [G] heavens are bright
With the [D] light from the /glittering [A] stars
, Have I [D] stood here amazed and [G] asked as I gazed
If their [D] glory ex- [A] ceeds that [A] of [D] ours.
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