"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and antelope play, Where never is heard a discouraging word And the sky is not clouded all day."
— Brewster Higley

January 1, 1970

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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. — Additional lyrics, claimed by William and Mary Goodwin, Bill McCabe, Bingham Graves, C. D. Swartz, "Jim", and others. See: John A. Lomax, "Half-Million Dollar Song: Origin of 'Home on the Range'", Southwest Review, vol. 31, no. 1 (Fall, 1945), pp. 4–5; Duncan Emrich (ed.) American Folk Poetry: An Anthology (Boston and Toronto: Little