Yes，give me the home where the prospectors roam
Their business is always alive
In these wild western hills
midst the ring of the drills
Oh，there let me live till I die．
John A．Lomax（1910）
Oh，give me a home where the buffalo roam，
Where the deer and the antelope play，
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day．
CHORUS
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．
Where the air is so pure，the zephyrs so free，
The breezes so balmy and light，
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright．
The red man was pressed from this part of the West
He’s likely no more to return，
To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever
Their flickering（闪动）camp－fires burn．
How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light from the glittering（闪烁的）stars
Have I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours．
Oh，I love these wild flowers
in this dear land of ours
The curlew I love to hear scream，
And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks
That graze on the mountain－tops green．
Oh，give me a land where the bright diamond sand
Flows leisurely（从容不迫）down the stream；
Where the graceful white swan goes gliding along
Like a maid in a heavenly dream．
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．A ball of twine in Cawker City measures over 38’in circumference（圆周，周围）and weighs more than 16，750pounds and is still growing．
2．A grain elevator in Hutchinson is 1／2mile long and holds 46million bushels in its 1，000bins．
3．South of Ashland the Rock Island Bridge is the longest railroad bridge of its kind．It measures 1，200feet long and is 100feet above the Cimarron River．
4．At Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine waterbeds for horses are used in surgery．
5．Kansas won the award for most beautiful license plate（牌照）for the wheat plate design issued in 1981．
6．Dodge City is the windiest city in the United States．
7．At one time it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie（樱桃饼）in Kansas．
8．The first woman mayor in the United States was Susan Madora Salter．She was elected to office in Argonia in 1887．
9．The first black woman to win an Academy Award was Kansan Hattie McDaniel．She won the award for her role in “Gone with the Wind”．
10．Kansas inventors include Almon Stowger of El Dorado who invented the dial telephone in 1889；William Purvis and Charles Wilson of Goodland who invented the helicopter in 1909；and Omar Knedlik of Coffeyville who invented the first frozen carbonated drink machine in 1961．
11．Smith County is the geographical center of the 48contiguous states．
12．Amelia Earhart，first woman granted a pilot’s license by the National Aeronautics（航空学，航空术）Associate and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was from Atchison．
13．Dwight D．Eisenhower from Abilene was the 34th President of the United States．
14．Silent comedian Buster Keaton，of early film success，was from Piqua，Kansas．
15．The three largest herds of buffalo（correctly called bison）in Kansas are located on public lands at the Maxwell Game Preserve（McPherson），Big Basin（Ashland），and Buffalo Game Preserve（Garden City）．
16．Fort Riley，between Junction City and Manhattan，was the cradle of the United States Cavalry（骑兵）for 83years．George Custer formed the famed 7th Cavalry there in 1866．Ten years later，at the Battle of the Little Big Horn，the 7th was virtually（事实上，实质上）wiped out．The only Cavalry survivor was a horse named Comanche（（北美印第安人的）科曼奇族）．
17．Wyatt Earp，James Butler “Wild Bill”Hickok and William B．“Bat”Masterson were three of the legendary lawmen who kept the peace in rowdy frontier towns like Abilene，Dodge City，Ellsworth，Hays，and Wichita．
18．The public swimming pool at the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City occupies half a city block and holds 21／2million gallons of water．
19．Cedar Crest is the name of the governor’s mansion in Topeka，the state capital．
20．Barton County is the only Kansas County that is named for a woman；the famous volunteer Civil War nurse Clara Barton．
21．The Arkansas River may be the only river whose pronunciation changes as it crosses state lines．In Kansas，it is called the Arkansas（ahr－KAN－zuhs）．On both sides of Kansas（Colorado and Oklahoma），it is called the Arkansaw．
