My Old Kentucky Home

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My Old Kentucky Home
by Stephen Foster

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Anti-slavery ballad, composed 1852 and published 1853, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, originally titled "Poor Uncle Tom Good Night" but later retitled by Foster.

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Versions of My Old Kentucky Home include:

"Poor Uncle Tom Good Night", from Foster's notebook (1852). (transcription project)
"My Old Kentucky Home", song sheet (late 19th century).
"My Old Kentucky Home" in Poems That Every Child Should Know (1904).
"My Old Kentucky Home" in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (c. 1917).