oh give me a home where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day home home on the range where the deer and the antelope play where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day three horses grazing out my window brown black and white they stand rolling pastures they can wander free and easy is their land chorus don t ever take away my freedom don t ever take it away we must cherish and keep that one part of our lives and the rest we re gonna find one of these days one of these days i always thought that i d see in my own lifetime an end to poverty injustice and war but now i ve learned that that job will take a long long time so there s one thing that must endure chorus when i am old and thinking over the whole life that i ve led if there s one final wish left to me i will pray that the children who are yet to be born i will pray that they will always live free chorus there is a time for the singing and the sunshine there is a time for the thunder and the rain there is a time for the changing of the seasons my friend but there is one thing we must never change chorus