Sing Home on the Range (Opening Lines): the lines, their key and note range
“Home on the Range (Opening Lines)” runs from G3 to G4, 12 semitones, with its tonic on C4 at 96 bpm, and rates hard to sing. Origin: Poem “My Western Home” by Dr. Brewster Higley, 1873; melody by Daniel E. Kelley, 1873.
Sing Home on the Range (Opening Lines) with pitch feedback
“Home on the Range (Opening Lines)” is transcribed here with its tonic on C4 at 96 bpm in 3 beats to the bar. The 16 notes span G3 to G4 — 12 semitones, with 3 leaps of a major third or more — and the span and leaps together rate it hard to sing; a full 1-pass session runs about 0:13.
12 semitones as transcribed. Once you have taken the range test, the practice room opens it fitted to your range, and you can shift it by semitones from there. Without a saved range it opens at this written pitch and is scored in either octave, so a lower voice can sing it an octave down and a higher voice an octave up.
- One time through
- 0:13 at 96 bpm
- A full session
- 0:13 — 1 pass
- Leaps of a major third or more
- 3
Home on the Range (Opening Lines) lyrics, as transcribed here
- Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam,
- Home, home on the range,
This longer arrangement sings selected lines of the song, not every verse.
Origin and copyright status
Higley’s poem and Kelley’s melody were both published in 1873; Higley died in 1911 and Kelley in 1905 — long out of copyright.
- Attribution
- Poem “My Western Home” by Dr. Brewster Higley, 1873; melody by Daniel E. Kelley, 1873
- Language
- English
Every melody in the songbook is public domain, which is why the whole thing can be sung in a browser without a licence. A specific recording or arrangement of the same tune can still be under copyright — this is our own transcription of the melody.
How the arrangement is laid out
- verseVerse 1, line 14 bars · beat 0–12
- chorusChorus, line 13 bars · beat 12–21