My Old Kentucky Home Bardstown Kentucky Stephen Foster
This is the house that they say inspired Stephen Foster to write some of his famous music. It is a state park in Bardstown Kentucky. You can see the inside of the house on a tour. The house did not belong to Foster.
Bardstown, Kentucky: My Old Kentucky Home
Want to visit the best small towns in America? Take a one-minute tour of Bardstown, Kentucky, home of Stephen Foster, the original Old Kentucky Home, and four bourbon distilleries, in this installment of Our Town.
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MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME by Stephen Foster words lyrics old American folk state derby sing along song
My Old Kentucky Home by Stephen Foster words lyrics best popular old American folk sing along songs
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The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home.
'Tis summer, the people are gay,
The corn top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom
While the birds make music all the day.
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy and bright.
By 'n by hard times comes a-knocking at the door,
Then my old Kentucky home, good night.
Weep no more my lady, oh! weep no more today!
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home,
For the old Kentucky home far away.
My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night! is an anti-slavery ballad[1] originally written by Stephen Foster, probably composed in 1852.[2] It was published as in January 1853 by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York.[2][3] Foster likely composed the song after having been inspired by the narrative of popular anti-slavery novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, while likely referencing imagery witnessed on his visits to the Bardstown, Kentucky farm called Federal Hill.[4] In Foster's sketchbook, the song was originally entitled Poor Uncle Tom, Good-Night!, but was altered by Foster as My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!. (from wiki)
My Old Kentucky Home (1853)
[Disclaimer: the racial terms and images in this song do not represent the attitude of sheet music singer. They are from the time when slavery was practiced in the United States. This recording is presented in original form as a part of musical history.]
Lyrics:
1. The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home
’Tis summer, the darkies are gay
The corn top’s ripe and the meadow’s in the bloom
While the birds make music all the day
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor
All merry, all happy, and bright
By’n by Hard Times comes a knocking at the door
Then my old Kentucky Home, good night!
Chorus:
Weep no more, my lady
Oh! weep no more today!
We will sing one song
For the old Kentucky Home
For the old Kentucky Home, far away
2. They hunt no more for the possum and the coon
On the meadow, the hill and the shore
They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon
On the bench by the old cabin door
The day goes by like a shadow o’er the heart
With sorrow where all was delight
The time has come when the darkies have to part
Then my old Kentucky Home, good night!
3. The head must bow and the back will have to bend
Wherever the darkey may go
A few more days, and the trouble all will end
In the field where the sugar-canes grow
A few more days for to tote the weary load
No matter ’twill never be light
A few more days till we totter on the road
Then my old Kentucky Home, good night!
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words and music by Stephen C. Foster
published by Firth Pond & Co.
This song was inspired by a visit to extended family in Bardstown, Kentucky. They had slaves and slave children there. Minstrel songs like this, and the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, presented a slave's viewpoint. This put a human face on slavery which made the condition of slavery real for many who did not live in a slave state. It probably had the effect of increasing sympathy for the slave, leading to emancipation ten years later. It is the official song of the state of Kentucky.
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If you're from Kentucky, I'm sure you'll have a tear or two. Don't we all?
MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME
by Stephen Foster
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home,
'Tis summer, the people are gay;
The corn-top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom,
While the birds make music all the day.
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy and bright;
By 'n' by hard times comes a-knocking at the door
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
CHORUS
Weep no more my lady
Oh! weep no more today!
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home,
For the Old Kentucky Home far away.
They hunt no more for the possum and the coon,
On meadow, the hill and the shore,
They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon,
On the bench by the old cabin door.
The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart,
With sorrow, where all was delight,
The time has come when the people have to part,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
CHORUS
The head must bow and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the people may go;
A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
In the field where the sugar-canes grow;
A few more days for to tote the weary load,
No matter, 'twill never be light;
A few more days till we totter on the road,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
CHORUS
The Stephen Foster Story: My Old Kentucky Home
Cast members of The Stephen Foster Story perform a rendition of My Old Kentucky Home in the Capitol Rotunda.
My Old Kentucky Home Brad Mann
This is my rendition of the official anthem of the state in which I am currently living and if you are not familiar with the Kentucky Derby, which is held annually on the first Saturday in May at historic Churchill Downs in Louisville and is also known as the run for the roses and the greatest two minutes in sports, this song is traditionally sung and played as the horses for the Derby itself are being paraded onto the track.
It is said that this tradition began in the 1920's, when a Kentucky-bread horse named Behave Yourself won the race and the crowd sang it with great gusto.
Now, if I may, I would like to share with you a bit of background on this song.
In Bardstown, there is an old mansion known as Federal Hill and legend has it that Stephen Foster, one of America's best-known composers and song writers, was a visitor to this place and it was one of these visits that inspired him to write the song and because of that, this mansion now has the same name as the title of the song and it officially became the state anthem on March 19, 1928.
(Lyrics)
The sun shines bright on My Old Kentucky Home,
'tis Summer, the people are gay;
The corn-top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom,
while the birds make music all the day.
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
all merry, all happy and bright;
By'n by hard times come a-knocking at the door,
then My Old Kentucky Home, good night!
Weep no more, my lady!
O, weep no more today!
We will sing one song for My Old Kentucky Home,
for My Old Kentucky Home far away.
Call to the Post-My Old Kentucky Home (harmonica)
My harmonica cover of the Stephen Foster classic. I'm playing on a Suzuki Promaster in the key of G, using a Shure Green Bullet microphone and a Pignose HOG 20 portable amplifier. I've always loved Horse Racing and the Kentucky Derby so I was delighted to find this video titled, The Backstretch-My Old Kentucky Home on Youtube by user named ridingxruffian. I thought it would make a nice backdrop for my rendition so I messaged that user through YT and asked if it was okay. I never did receive a response so if I thought I'd go ahead and take a chance. Here's the link to the original video by ridingxruffian:
The backing track I'm using is from ProSound Karaoke Band
Here's is some info about the original music that I found on Wikipedia:
My Old Kentucky Home is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826-1864), probably composed in 1852.[1] It was published as My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night in January 1853 by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York.[1][2] The song was introduced by Christy's Minstrels the same year.[3]
Foster allegedly composed the song after visiting a relative's home at Bardstown, Kentucky called Federal Hill, but scholars have discounted the allegation. Richard Jackson believes Foster took inspiration from Harriett Beecher Stowe's 1851 bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin, and hoped to exploit its popularity. In Foster's sketchbook, the song was titled Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night and each verse ended with the line Den poor Uncle Tom, good night. Jackson describes the song as one of [Foster's] most appealing nostalgia pieces.[1] Abolitionist Frederick Douglass thought the song stimulated the sympathies for the slave, in which anti-slavery principles take root and flourish.[4]
The song described originally an everyday scene on a slave plantation and was a beloved song in minstrel shows.
Negro Life at the South, by Eastman Johnson is popularly known as Old Kentucky Home[5]
My Old Kentucky Home became the official state song of Kentucky on March 19, 1928 by an act of the Kentucky legislature. In 1986, Japanese students visiting the Kentucky General Assembly sang the song as a gesture of respect, but Carl Hines, the only black member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, was quoted as saying that the lyrics convey connotations of racial discrimination that are not acceptable. Within days, Hines was sponsoring a bill to revise the lyrics, and, with the passage of House Resolution 159, the word darkies was changed to people.[6]
Foster's composition is the official song of the Kentucky Derby. As early as 1930, it was played to accompany the Post Parade; the University of Louisville Marching Band has played the song for all but a few years since 1936. In 1982, Churchill Downs honored Foster by establishing the Stephen Foster Handicap.[7] The University of Louisville, University of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, and Western Kentucky University bands play the song at their schools' football and basketball games,[8] and the song has been heard in many films including The Little Colonel; Gone With the Wind; The Story of Seabiscuit; The Human Comedy; and the Bugs Bunny cartoon Southern Fried Rabbit.
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AMERICAN MONTAGE - 110 My Old Kentucky Home
Dennis Daily shares another of his more than 200 American Montage broadcasts from his days with the old UPI Radio Network. In this episode, Dennis takes us to Bardstown, Kentucky, one of the region's most historic cities. While there he visited the REAL My Old Kentucky Home and talks about the building and the legacy of Stephen Foster.
My Old Kentucky Home Wedding || Kendall & Mitchell
The wedding of Kendall and Mitchell was so much fun to shoot. It's such a beautiful wedding of two amazing people, with really loving families. Shooting at My Old Kentucky Home was so fun. It's one of the most beautiful places I've shot at and it was just amazing to shoot at a historic location like my old kentucky home.
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My Old Kentucky Home
Middle school Derby festivities kick off with with singing 'My Old Kentucky Home.'
My Old Kentucky Home, Part 2
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Description: My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night! is an anti-slavery ballad originally written by Stephen Foster, composed in 1852. It was published in January 1853 by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York. Foster likely composed the song after having been inspired by the narrative of popular anti-slavery novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, while likely referencing imagery witnessed on his visits to the Bardstown, Kentucky farm called Federal Hill.In Foster's sketchbook, the song was originally entitled Poor Uncle Tom, Good-Night!, but was altered by Foster as My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night! Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist, wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom that the song awakens sympathies for the slave, in which antislavery principles take root, grow, and flourish.
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2001 Sate Quarter: Kentucky
The Kentucky quarter, the fifth and last quarter in the 2001 series of the
50 State Quarters® Program
, shows the stately mansion, Federal Hill, with an inscription that reads, My Old Kentucky Home. A thoroughbred racehorse is positioned behind a fence in the foreground of the quarter.
Kentucky was the first state on the western frontier to join the Union and is one of four states to call itself a commonwealth. Kentucky is home of the longest running annual horse race in the country, the Kentucky Derby. The famous Kentucky Bluegrass country is also grazing ground for some of the world's finest racehorses. Also featured on the new quarter is another prominent symbol of Kentucky, Federal Hill, which has become known as My Old Kentucky Home. The design shows a side view of the famous Bardstown home where Stephen Foster wrote the state song, My Old Kentucky Home.
Quarter Specifications
Release Date: October 15, 2001
Reverse (tails) Side: My Old Kentucky Home
Engraver: T. James Ferrell
Standard Weight: 5.670g
Standard Diameter: 24.26mm (0.955 in)
Thickness: 1.75 mm
Edge Detail: Reeded
Composition: Cupro-Nickel Clad
(8.33% Nickel / 91.67% Copper)
Jim Chaps at Stephen Foster statue My Old Kentucky Home state park
On location near Bardstown, Kentucky, Jim Chaps introduces the statue at the site Federal Hill where the famous song was written. Perfect timing during the filming... you can hear the wonderful carillon at the park as Jim finishes his brief intro on guitar. Jim Chaps began singing folk songs during the 1960's. This video was filmed in 2009. PeaceFoals released The Banyan Project an ep collection of five contemporary folk and folk-rock cover songs in the summer of 2018. Jim is also an avid thoroughbred fan and saved all of the newspaper clippings of Secretariat's triple crown races. He attended the Kentucky Derby in person in 1977 the year Seattle Slew ran. Thank you to Kentucky State Parks! Link:
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Al Jolson - My Old Kentucky Home
A Note: He left out the word darkies, that was in the original Foster lyrics. Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 -- October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian born singer, comedian and actor. He was famous for performing black-face.
My Old Kentucky Home (originally titled Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night!, and sometimes also titled My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!)
is the state song of Kentucky. It was published by Stephen Foster in 1853 and was adopted by the Kentucky General Assembly as the official state song on March 19, 1928.
The song describes a scene of life on a slave plantation. The abolitionist Frederick Douglass believed the song was sympathetic to slaves.
In 1986, the Kentucky General Assembly adopted a version unlikely to cause offense in which the original word darkies was changed to people.
The first draft of My Old Kentucky Home appeared in Stephen Collins Foster's workbook under the title Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night.
It was published in 1853 by New York's Firth, Pound, and Company
According to folklore, Foster was inspired to write the song when, while traveling from his home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to New Orleans, Louisiana, he stopped in Bardstown, Kentucky to visit his cousins, the Rowan family, and saw their magnificent Federal Hill mansion.
However, while Foster's trip to New Orleans is well-documented, his stop in Kentucky was very brief. Steamboat passenger manifests prove he was only in the Louisville area for a period of a few hours, not enough time to travel to Bardstown.
Also problematic is that the lyrics refer not to a mansion, but a little cabin. Also, Foster's trip took place in 1852, after the first draft of the song had already been written.
Foster's only documented trip to Kentucky occurred in 1833 when his mother took him to visit relatives in Augusta and Louisville, however Foster did not travel to Bardstown due to a cholera epidemic in the area at that time.
Most scholars believe that Foster was inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published in 1851
My Old Kentucky Home is sung annually at the Kentucky Derby with the accompaniment of the University of Louisville marching band.
The University of Kentucky, in Lexington, also plays My Old Kentucky Home prior to each home football game and at the conclusion of its basketball games.
During the playing at the conclusion of the game, it is a tradition for the fans and cheerleaders to remain silent until the band plays the final verse (Weep no more my lady) and to hold their right hands with index fingers extended to signify the number 1. Former Kentucky Governor A.B. Happy Chandler sometimes led the singing of My Old Kentucky Home at both University's games and recorded a live version with the University of Kentucky Marching Band.
Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used in minstrel shows, and later vaudeville, in which performers create a stereotyped caricature of a black person. The practice gained popularity during the 19th century and contributed to the proliferation of stereotypes such as the happy-go-lucky darky on the plantation or the dandified coon. blackface minstrel shows were the national art of the time, translating formal art such as opera into popular terms for a general audience. Early in the 20th century, blackface branched off from the minstrel show and became a form in its own right, until it ended in the United States with the U.S. Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The Netherlands continues to celebrate St. Nicolas Eve with Zwarte Piet in full blackface Moorish costume.
My Old Kentucky Home
My Old Kentucky Home is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster, probably composed in 1852. It was published as My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night in January 1853 by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York.The song was introduced by Christy's Minstrels the same year.
Foster allegedly composed the song after visiting a relative's home at Bardstown, Kentucky called Federal Hill, but scholars have discounted the allegation. Richard Jackson believes Foster took inspiration from Harriett Beecher Stowe's 1851 bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin and hoped to exploit its popularity.
The song described originally an everyday scene on a slave plantation and was a beloved song in minstrel shows.
Great performance of this tune was from Ken Colyer in 1952, and it become a trad jazz revival standard.
Negro Life at the South, by Eastman Johnson is popularly known as Old Kentucky Home[5]
My Old Kentucky Home became the official state song of Kentucky on March 19, 1928, by an act of the Kentucky legislature
Kentucky Farm Bureau's Bluegrass & Backroads: My Old Kentucky Dinner Train
Take a ride in style on the My Old Kentucky Dinner Train. Produced by WKU PBS