Beautiful American folksongs, we love them right here in Holland..logging for the vast spaces in the USA. Love from The Netherlands

My mother was raised in a sod house similar to those shown in these slides. Raised in western Kansas near a town that no longer exists there.

I had a farm... with antelopes roaming , I miss so much the beauty of it all .

Loved the old photos from the past. those folks were tough!

Those old folk songs are forgotten and people that put them on you tube are definitely do a great service for us old folk

150 years later, still beautiful.

in the late 50s, early 60s we'd sing so many of these American folk songs in grade school. Listening to Tom sing these songs brings back a lot of fond memories of those sweet times we had.

I'm from the Philippines. This song is so nostalgic to me. It reminds me of my father, who used to sing this when I was a kid. He learned this song from the early Episcopalian missionaries in the Cordilleras. Missed him so much...

My great aunt taught me this song when I was a child. She was born in the 1890’s. The photos set to this music is so moving. I feel so indebted to these brave pioneers who sacrificed for us. God has been so generous to us. May we be grateful to Him for all He has given us and may He have mercy on our country. I pray people turn back to Him.

What a pure, pure song. Thank you.

This song immediately pictures a vast grand Prarie of western life in my mind. Luckily I've been to the west with my family few years ago. Love from Beijing!

My dad's favorite song. If he were still alive, he would have loved this rendition by Tom. Beautiful.

WOW! I love this song, but what is striking to me is the number of SMILES on their faces in these pictures! A photograph in those days took at least 10 minutes to take and was prohibitively expensive. In almost all of the pictures in those days, the people generally did not have smiles on their faces. It is such a joy to see the pioneer families with pride and happiness on their faces. When you work for your home, you have earned smiles!

I learned this song at school in Germany, 1972. I was maybe 11 or 12 years old. All the kids loved this song. Greetings from Germany!

I always loved this song and this version is so beautiful. It makes me feel better during these awful times, just thinking about what our ancestors faced with such strength. Thank you for this.

Beautiful old western song. I always have liked it since I first heard it in another version when I was a child. Who of us does to wish a home of his own when we are young and unattached? The video is very good too and well suited to the song.

After listening to this song (which we've heard many times) my Wife and I took a drive out on the Praire here in Central Montana and heard the song of the Curlew and a herd of Antelope. Life is Good!

I live in Nevada and what I love most about this state, is looking across the Dayton Valley with the surrounding mountains, looking up at the clear blue sky as it fades into a point at the end of the valley and at night listening to the silence of the desert and taking in the beauty of being in the desert at night because there is something special about it that makes you feel very small.

Thank you from the korea. My heart is warm and very happy.

Anthem for 2023. This was the first song I ever learned back in the 70s. Epic

When I was a kid 1948 my father sang this song while shaving!

I grew up in the Philippines and every night my grandma use to sing me this song. Now I’m here in Canada, she’s sick in the Philippines. I miss her. I just wanna hug her right now.

No prouder group of people that ever stood infant of a camera. So determined, they build with no complaints.

Beautiful old song! Thanks for giving the us the original lyrics! Greetings from Australia.

good to see you're putting these songs back where they belong! keep em for future generations to come!

your voice, the music , the lyrics, the old photos.......perfect combo, what else do we need :)

Beautiful! Evokes an era long gone.

In 1839, the company I used to work for, the owner & a friend of his, whom he was nursing along at the time, (Anheuser Busch), used to shoot wild game from his office window in St. Louis... Simple times....your beautiful sing & play here just took me back to that point in time...Roll on, Mississippi...Roll On....THANK you for this

I am not a native American, but I learned this song when I was in extracurricular English class outside of school. I was so inspired by what the song described. After many years, I landed in the US, although I've been to Kansas I definitely saw similar scenery in other states. The world is full of magic and I am happy I live into it.

By far THE BEST RENDITION OF THIS SONG. This is how it SHOULD BE SUNG! Greetings from Israel.

I am not a western,but I love this song very much...it gives me goosebumps 😍

Yes,I learnt these songs in the primary school days,still bring back those fond,nostalgic memories.Thank you

This a beautiful song and I am glad it's here to be enjoyed by so many. The original words make me understand what the pioneers saw about the Western lands I am proud of where I come from in New Mexico.

It is good enough to recall my childhood we loved this song much.

Thank you from Germany - wonderful

Today 1/29/2024 Kansas day, glad there are many enjoying the Kansas state song, thanks Tom for your wonderful rendition

Brings back my primary school days and our music teacher including some old long lost touch classmates. Thank you, Tom and also for the Little Brown Jug and My grandfather's Clock.

Tom is a hidden treasure. I've been coming back to his catalog of classics for decades (at least it seems so). Thank you Tom.

so many faces unknown, stories will never be told,

I read how this simple but beautiful song was originally created. So I learned about who wrote the poem first, about who (perhaps using only the base notes) he musicalized it, and to understand the reason, well, having been several times in your beautiful country, it's easy. Kansas official song ! So I really appreciate your work to keep your roots alive 🇺🇸👍🔝 !!! Best regards from Switzerland 🇨🇭

Happy Kansas Day, 2020! My beautiful state and state song!

When I hear that song I feel like a kid again, all my worries are gone Thx

１９５０年代、中学校で習った習った曲一生懸命英語も練習し懐かしい曲です。アーリーアメリカンは素朴だったのですネ。

I grew in the Philippines and we've been singing this at young til now I'm a grandma I still sing it. Now I'm here in the this blessed country every one comes to stay. Thanks God 😊

Every time it’s hard for me to sleep . I listen to this music repeatedly. This is my fave Lullaby. Try it yourself. 💤

Of your many beautiful recordings, I think might be the best! I always find great solace and comfort in this performance. Many thanks to all involved -- especially Dr. Higley's talented brother-in-law.

Tom........greetings from India!!..... you bring nostalgia and melancholy for far-away guys like me. Thanks to you, your effort and yout-tube......you guys makes this possible. Hats Off!!

the people in the pictures look so happy and content, so long gone now

Thank you. From China. It's my favorite american folk : )

Thank you. From Germany.

I am as dirty as a city boy as you'd think, but I love this song! So sad and peaceful.

My first song I learned from my brother Ron when I was 6 years old! It made a big impression on me! I still love the song now I am 73 years old! But what shocked me were the pictures from the people who lived on those ranges. The houses look so poor! Not romantic at all! Lots of love from HollandXXX

Love the pictures!Tom Roush was a hell of a singer!

Thanks for uploading these songs back. You're doing a real service to future generations and music lovers alike. Really appreciate your effort.I'm sure a lot of people would be really pleased If you could upload the other songs too ya know like Nell and I, Oh Susanna,Old folks at home just to name a few. Thanks again! :)

Dit melancholieke cowboy `s nummer leerde we bij de Engelse les. En is me altijd bij gebleven ( ook nu nog na 70 jaar ) Jos Willemse

I heard this song in the movie "I loved a woman" 1933 wirh EGR and soon got catch up with the tune. Nice

What an asome beginning of American history in de making I know how it going to end sad,how few that calls themselves Americans really cared about their soul,stuff celestial&divine....

Thank You! Your tempo fits the lyrics so well. The photos and graphics make a great backdrop too.

Not only a great song but the video has some very good pictures too. It makes me think how the life of those people who moved to the west in the XIX Century lived in those vast western plains.

As a Kansan living in Maine this song makes me homesick

Thank you for reminding me of singing this in my grade school years. I give praise to all of our ancestors who moved west for freedom, and a better life, met with perilous Times, yet with love to their families, with great courage they endured . God bless the memory of those who didn’t make it.❤️🇺🇸

It reminds me of driving from N Dakota to Montana, and what town should I pass? Home on the Range. Wow! It really does exist!

I love american old folk songs and Tom Roush I love too your warm and beatiful style of sinnginng. From japan Koki Kojima say.

My great grandmother was on the Canadian plains just like those pictures they were in Winniepegg before the railroad but a shooting accident in New York killed her father so they came back to the UK

Thank from An Indian from India ,living in Britain , my favourite American folk !

Thanks. This song is beautiful. Excellent voices and playing.

My mother and I used to sing this every time we pulled into the driveway when I was a kid 😂

We used to sing this song during our Elementary days 60 years ago...memories.

What a beautiful song

Fun fact about this the dude who wrote the original Home on the Range/ My western home (Brewster Higley) is distantly related to me (notgivingoutmyname Higley)

I'm very moved. Thank you.

너무 너무 좋아요 내 어린시절 학교에서 음악 시간에 듣던 아름다운 노래입니다 고맙습니다.

Thank you. From VietNam :)

Very beautiful song.😊😃

Thanks Tom for posting this wonderful piece of Americana in its original 1874 version. And this HOW THIS SONG SHOULD BE PERFORMED!

Home On The Range 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 Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day How often at night when the heavens are bright With the light from the glittering stars Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed， If their glory exceeds that of ours Home, home on the range家， Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam

My favourite song ❤️❤️❤️

Very weird - it feels as if I were living in those times and growing up with this music and this beautiful language.

懐かしい演奏を聴かせて頂きましてありがとうございます。懐かしくて涙が出てきました、これからも良き音楽を聴かせてくださいますようお願い致します。

Now I know why my father held onto this song so lovingly. As now I have found the whole story which is so precious. Thankyou. I cry as he did but never understood such love, from our creator, we all need soooo much of this now.

Just another great job!

The best, this is the beauty of music ..

Thanks for your efforts. Love the songs

Beautiful thank you for putting this on a video.

this song makes me at ease, thank you!

Of the arrangements I've listened to, I like this the most. The background strings add depth, the pace is moving but gentle, and the song retains a folk sound. I'm not sure I like the use of the glockenspiel towards the end.

With a taste of the Buffalo bourbon I have to think at my dad, when he was in a good mood he always sung this song and at his funeral we played this song for him. I It was in the Netherlands

Superb lyrics, supreme composition, splendid rendition! The good old west and good old time.

Gorgeous ❤❤❤ didnt know these other verses before

Dear Tom, when I was young, I had a book called " Voices of America".(You see, I was born in the USSR) It was my favourite song from this book. Прожить бы весь век средь просторов и рек, где кочует бизон и олень, где птиц голоса, где светлы небеса, где светлы небеса целый день. Oh, how can I put it into words? Motherland! I think we understand each other. And pardon my English))

One of the popular song in China during the 19th century.

Great rendition. Great upload.

My great grandparents were pioneers in Canada. The built a chicken coop first and lived in it while they built their log cabin

Beautifully done

Fabulous video!

Lovely song song

My old Wyoming home- it will always be.

I remember this song in school.

We would sing this song in Music class. Scotland of the East ☺✌

i grew up on these songs