{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-73-1301","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 73-1301","heading":"Home on the Range.","body":"The song \"Home on the Range\" as originally written with words by Dr. Brewster Higley and music by Dan Kelly is hereby established as the Kansas state song. The words to such song shall be:\nOh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,\nWhere the deer and the antelope play,\nWhere seldom is heard a discouraging word\nAnd the sky is not clouded all day.\nChorus:\nA home, a home where the deer and the antelope play,\nWhere seldom is heard a discouraging word\nAnd the sky is not clouded all day.\nOh, give me the gale of the Solomon vale,\nWhere life streams with buoyancy flow,\nOn the banks of the Beaver, where seldom if ever\nAny poisonous herbage doth grow.\nOh, give me the land where the bright diamond sand\nThrows its light from the glittering stream\nWhere glideth along the graceful white swan,\nLike a maid in a heavenly dream.\nI love the wild flowers in this bright land of ours;\nI love too the wild curley's scream,\nThe bluffs and white rocks and antelope flocks\nThat graze on the hillsides so green.\nHow often at night, when the heavens are bright\nWith the light of the glittering stars,\nHave I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed\nIf their glory exceeds this of ours.\nThe air is so pure, the breezes so free,\nThe zephyrs so balmy and light,\nI would not exchange my home here to range\nForever in azure so bright.","path":["Chapter 73.—SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND PATRIOTIC EMBLEMS","Article 13.—STATE SONG"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch73/073_013_0001.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:14:06Z","sha256":"a3ae5217ec7dc7a2d1f788f8c0e18fccdfb863791807771810fa368b9a5079a9","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-73-1245","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-73-1401"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}