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.

"A Home on the Range", st. 1. John A. Lomax (ed.) Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (New York: Macmillan Co., 1910), pp. 39–40 | 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, Brown and Co., 1974), pp. 577–8