THE LONESOME COWBOY
for Orchestra.

by W. Brent Sawyer
completed 4/13/2023
approx. length: 8:40 minutes

This is the second movement of my PRAIRIE SYMPHONY.

This movement incorporates the traditional cowboy song, Home On The Range. "Home on the Range" is a classic cowboy song, sometimes called the "unofficial anthem" of the American West. Dr. Brewster M. Higley of Smith County, Kansas, wrote the lyrics as the poem "My Western Home" in 1872 or 1873, with at least one source indicating it was written as early as 1871. On June 30, 1947, "Home on the Range" became the Kansas state song.

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