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Home on the Range: bass part

The bass part of Home on the Range in G, from G2 to E3. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Holds long, low notes on "oo", mostly G, C, D and B, and sings the words only for "Home, home on the range".

Range
G2 to E3
Key
G
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About Home on the Range

Words: Brewster Higley (1872 or 1873)

Tune: Daniel E. Kelley (1870s)

Home on the Range began as My Western Home, a poem that Brewster Higley, a doctor in Smith County, Kansas, wrote in the early 1870s, and his friend Daniel E. Kelley is credited with setting it to music. In 1908 the folk song collector John Lomax recorded a saloon keeper singing it, a man who had once been a cook on cattle drives up the Chisholm Trail. By the 1930s the song's origins were obscure and widely debated, until a lawsuit over it in 1934 set off a search that traced it back to Higley and Kelley, and in 1947 it became the state song of Kansas. Our arrangement is read from Lomax's Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads of 1910, which prints it in E-flat in 6/8; we sing it in G, as a gentle waltz. This is the verse and the refrain for 2 to 4 singers: the tune on top, the alto a third or a sixth under it on the words, the tenor filling the chord, mostly on G, and the bass holding long low notes on "oo", singing the words only for "Home, home on the range".

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