Florian, I've looked at your posting for song of the month several times and even looked up the words to Home On the Range to see if I remember them correctly but couldn't come up with what I thought was a suitable answer. I was hoping someone else would post first, but since it's already November 23rd I'll give you my thoughts and anyone else can jump in and disagree with me.
It's interesting how in the first verse of Romance it says "you say that people don't change, why re-arrange the original" and then later in the song he uses almost the same lines "they say that people don't change, like Home on the Range, it's original." I think the song Home on the Range has been around for as long as the midwest and west have been explored and pioneered - so it must be one of the original folklore songs for the west. Whenever I think of the words of Home on the Range, I always get the impression of a homestead or ranch where nothing ever changes. It's almost always sunny, the deer and the antelope are always playing and if you visited there 20 years later it would be exactly the same.
Is that anywhere close to what you were thinking? Anybody else have any ideas?
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