Artist: | Brewster Higley (English) |
User: | ralph estes |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Home On The Range [ in G ]
An 1872 poem by a saddlebag physician, Brewster Higley, who had moved West to Smith Center, Kansas. The tune is credited to Higley’s neighbor Dan Kelley.
In 1908 John Lomax had set up his recording machine in San Antonio’s Buckhorn Saloon, seeking cowboy songs. He was referred to Jack McCurry, proprietor of a beer parlor in the red-light district who had been a cook in cow camps during the great trail driving days (and claimed to have worked for the Sam Bass outlaw gang). At first McCurry was too drunk to sing, but Lomax came back the next day and, after two bottles of beer, McCurry sang this song into Lomax’s machine. [He Was Singing This Song, p. 214]
Never underestimate the power of a couple of beers.
F A#
Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam
F C
Where the deer and the antelope play
F A#
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
F C F
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
How often at night, when the heavens are bright
With the light of the glimmering stars
I have stood there amazed, and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours.
(chorus)
I love the wild flowers in this bright land of ours,
I love the wild curlew's shrill scream;
The bluffs and white rocks, and antelope flocks
That graze on the mountains so green.
(chorus)