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Kansas State Song:

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Home on the Range

by Brewster Higley & Dan Kelley

Verse 1:

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.

Chorus:

Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Verse 2:

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 the cities so bright.

Verse 3:

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.

Verse 4:

The red man was pressed from this part of the West,
He's likly no more to return
To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever
Their flickering campfires burn.

Verse 5:

How often at night when the heavens are 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.

Verse 6:

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.

Verse 7:

Then I would not exchange my home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Photo of
Photo of 'Buffalo Wallow' at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
by John Charlton - Kansas Geological Survey
Source:
Roam is where the heart is - Kansas History Online
Home on the Range: Center for Great Plains study, Emporia U
Home on the Range: BusSongs.com - camp songs & lyrics
Links:
State Songs - 50 states
National Anthem

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