Important: These guitar parts are in the recording of Peter, Paul and Mary's Peter, Paul and Mommy too album
on the 10th track
Key: D Major
Tuning: Standard
D G D E A
Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play
D G D A D
where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day
D A D E A
Home, Home on the range where the deer and the antelope play
D G D A D
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day
D Dmaj7 D7 A D
Three horses grazing out my window brown black and white they stand
A D A A2
rolling pastures they can wander Free and easy is their land-Oh
Chorus:
G A D G A D G D2/A2 Em
Don't ever take away our freedom don't ever take it away we must cherish and keep that one part
D Em A
of our lives and the rest we're gonna find one of these days
Chords in the same sequence for the rest of the song
I've always thought that I'd see in my own lifetime, an end into poverty, injustice and the war, but now I
have learned to that job, it's gonna take a long, long time. So there's one thing that must endure.
(chorus)
When, I'm old, I am thinking over, this whole life that I led, If there is one final wish, left to me. I will
pray for the children left to be born, I will pray that they will always live free
(chorus)
Bridge:
G A D
There is a time for the singing and the sunshine
G A D
There is a time for the thunder and the rain
G F#m Em D
There is a time for the changing all the seasons my friends
Em A
but there's one thing we must never change
(chorus)
Ending:
G A D
And the rest we're gonna find one of these days
Guitar rhythm: Moderately Folk