"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."
— Unknown

January 1, 1970

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States of the United StatesKansas
Original Language: English

Sources

Brewster M. Higley, "A Home on the Range", first verse of the song version, as collected and recorded in Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910) by John A. Lomax. Various minor changes have been made in this popular Western song over the years, but the lyrics have remained largely the same as in Higley's original poem, which he wrote somewhere before or near 1874. "Home on the Range" was adopted as the official state song of the State of Kansas on 30 June 1947.