Home on the Range Cowboy Songs
Cowboy songs are a genre of folk music that originated in the western United States and Canada. They often deal with themes of cowboys, ranch life, and the American Old West. Cowboy songs may be ballads, hymns, or dance tunes, and they are typically characterized by their use of western themes and imagery, as well as their use of guitar, fiddle, and other instruments commonly associated with country and western music.
Cowboy songs have been an important part of American folk music for centuries and have had a significant influence on the development of country and western music. Some of the most famous cowboy songs include "Home on the Range," "Red River Valley," "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," and "The Streets of Laredo."
The quintessential American cowboy song, lauding of the beauty and wonder of the (once) unspoiled American west. Here are the words I learned.
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
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
Where the air is so pure, the wind blows so free
The breezes so balmy and light
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright
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
I love the wildflowers in this great land of ours
I love the wild curlew’s shrill scream
The blufs and white rocks, and the antelop flocks
That graze on the mountains so green
