"Home on the Range" is a classic western song, sometimes called the unofficial anthem of the American West. The lyrics were originally written by Dr. Brewster M. Higley of Smith County, Kansas in a poem entitled "My Western Home" in the early 1870s. In 1947 it became the state song of the American state of Kansas. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.

Americans have sung "Home on the Range" since 1911, so what could possibly be wrong with the song? Well there are two things:

1. The real home where the buffalo roam is in Africa or Asia (the Cape buffalo of Africa and the water buffalo of Asia). The species we have here in the United States is properly called bison.

2. There are no antelope in the United States, either. They're also native to Asia and Africa. What the song calls "antelope" was properly the pronghorn, which is a lot tougher to rhyme. Antelope grow their horns throughout their lives, whereas pronghorns shed their horns annually.

But "Oh give me a home where the bison roam, and the deer and the pronghorn play" doesn't quite have the same feeling, does it?