From the film “Calamity Jane”, 1953.
Words by Paul Francis Webster.
Music by Sammy Fain.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Black Hills, Black Hills
Tho’ I’ve wandered far away
Black Hills, Black Hills
I’ll come back to you some day
Where the deer and the buffalo roam
And the Red-wing feathers her nest
That’s the place that I call my home
The land that I love the best
Refrain
Take me back to the Black Hills
The Black Hills of Dakota
To the beautiful Indian country that I love
Lost my heart in the Black Hills
The Black Hills of Dakota
Where the pines are so high
That they kiss the sky above
And when I get that lonesome feeling
And I’m miles away from home
I hear the voice of the mystic mountains
Calling me back home
So take me back to the Black Hills
The Black Hills of Dakota
To the beautiful Indian country that I love