The song "Home on the Range" as originally written with words by Dr. Brewster Higley and music by Dan Kelly is hereby established as the Kansas state song. The words to such song shall be:

Where the deer and the antelope play,

And the sky is not clouded all day.

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

And the sky is not clouded all day.

Where life streams with buoyancy flow,

Any poisonous herbage doth grow.

Throws its light from the glittering stream

Like a maid in a heavenly dream.

I love too the wild curley's scream,

That graze on the hillsides so green.

With the light of the glittering stars,

If their glory exceeds this of ours.

The zephyrs so balmy and light,

Forever in azure so bright.

L. 1947, ch. 433, § 1; June 30.