(May be sung to the tune of “Home on the Range”)

Oh, I want my home
Safe from where bigots roam
Where fanatics are all kept at bay
From courthouse and school
So no pious fool
Can control what I think or I say.

Home, home do not change
Don’t let freedom be taken away
From courthouse and school
Let no pious fool
Control what I think or I say.

Some folks think it strange
When they can’t rearrange
Me, and I can’t get it quite right
To do things their way
And behave as they say
I just want them out of my sight.

Home, home do not change
Don’t let freedom be taken away
From courthouse and school
Let no pious fool
Control what I think or I say.

I want to stay where
I can breathe freedom’s air
Safe from the righteous deceived
No invisible friends
No new life when life ends
Far away from pretend things believed.
.
Home, home do not change
Don’t let freedom be taken away
From courthouse and school
Let no pious fool
Control what I think or I say.

My home is my place
If they get in my face
Trying to make me believe
As they want me to do
Telling me what is true
I can just make them all leave.

Home, home do not change
Don’t let freedom be taken away
From courthouse and school
Let no pious fool
Control what I think or I say.

© Edwin Kagin.
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