Home on the Range (Verse & Chorus)
Folk · 1800s · Poem “My Western Home” by Dr. Brewster Higley, 1873; melody by Daniel E. Kelley, 1873
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“Home on the Range (Verse & Chorus)” 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 — which rates Hard to sing, and a full 1-pass session runs about 0:13.
12 semitones as transcribed. The practice room transposes it to sit in your own range.
- One time through
- 0:13 at 96 bpm
- A full session
- 0:13 — 1 pass
- Leaps of a third or more
- 3
Home on the Range (Verse & Chorus) lyrics
- Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam,
- Home, home on the range,
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 14 bars · beat 0–12
- chorusChorus3 bars · beat 12–21
Genre, era and what it drills
Tags describe what the melody asks of a voice, not what it sounds like — “cowboy song” is the reason to pick it on a given day.