In an excercise from an English book the phrase "Buffalo Roam" was in a list of USA-related words and phrases. Can anybody tell me what it means. Or is it a geographical location? Thanks. MSB
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It's from the first verse of the old country song "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
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
There's also the semi-classic, much-hated cult comedy "Where the Buffalo Roam," early Eighties, starring Bill Murray as Hunter S. Thompson (seriously) and Peter Boyle as his attorney. Not really a very good movie or anything like that, but hilarious in fits and starts.
-J
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In an excercise from an English book the phrase "Buffalo Roam" was in a list of USA-related words and phrases. Can anybody tell me what it means. Or is it a geographical location? Thanks. MSB
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Well, I don't know if this is it's _origin_ -- but there's a 'cowboy ballad' type song called "Home on the Range" -- goes something like: O 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
As a side note -- did those cowboys kill all the antelope? I don't remember ever hearing of an "American Antelope" -- just deer, elk, moose (meese? :), etc...
Don
Don Morris said:
Hee hee hee ... those *are* the American equivalent of antelopes :)
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Don Morris wrote:
The pronghorn antelope is native to the U.S. and Canada, though it's not very closely related to African antelope I don't think. Probably like the difference between American warblers and European warblers.
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It is an early American colloquial euphemism (origin unknown) for the droppings left by these large bovines.
MSB wrote:
"Where the Buffalo Roam" is colloquial for an undeveloped, wild, lonely or dangerous area. It carries connotations of beauty, hazard and opportunity. The original reference, from the song "Home on the Range", is to the Great Plains region of North America, which were once inhabited by vast herds of American Bison, commonly called "Buffalo", and the Native Ameican tribes for whom the Bison provided food, clothing, and shelter. It was a beautiful, but lonely and dangerous place for the first settlers of european descent, but a place where livings, and sometimes fortunes, could be made.
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