My Old Kentucky Home
Stephen Foster
Info : "My Old Kentucky Home" was written and set to music by Stephen Collins Foster in
1850 and published in 1853 by Firth, Pound, and Company, New York. It was designated the
state song of Kentucky by an act of the legislature (Kentucky Acts, 1928), approved March 19, 1928.
URL: http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/KYSong.htm
This is the singing part of the song, and is correct.
e|------------------------------------------------B|--------------------5--3------------------------G|--44-4-------4-5-4-5--------,-5-5-4-------------D|--------5--7------------------------7--55-3--5-7A|------------------------------------------------E|------------------------------------------------1.The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home,Tis summer the darkies are gray2.They hunt no more for the possum and the coon, on the meadow the ill and the shore3.the head must bow and the back will have to bend, wherever the darkies may go
e|------------------------------------------------B|------------------5-3,-------444------4---------G|---44-----4-5-4-5-------5-7------7--5----7-5----D|-7----5-7---------------------------------------A|------------------------------------------------E|------------------------------------------------The corn tops ripe and the meadows all in bloom, While the birds make music all the dayThey sing no more by the glimmer of the moon, on the bench by the old cabin doorA few more days and the trouble all will end, in the field where the sugar canes grow
e|------------------------------------------------B|---------------------5-3,-----------------------G|--4-4-4------4-5-4-5-------5-4------------------D|---------5-7--------------------7-5-5-3--5--7--- A|------------------------------------------------E|------------------------------------------------They young folks roll on the little cabin floor, All merry all happy and brightThe day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart, with sorrow where all was delightA few more days for to tote the weary load, No matter twill never be light
e|------------------------------------------------B|--------------------5-3,------------------------G|----4-4-----4-5-4-5---------4---5-4-------------D|--7-----5-7-------------5-7---5-----7-5-5-------A|------------------------------------------------E|------------------------------------------------By'n by hard times comes a knocking at the door, Then my old Kentucky home good nightThe time has come when the darkies have to part, then my old Kentucky home good nightA few more days till we tooter on the road, Then my old Kentucky home good night
e|------------------------------------------------B|---3-----5-3------------------------------------G|-----4-5-----4,---------------------------------D|-----------------7-5-7-5-2--5-------------------A|------------------------------------------------E|------------------------------------------------1-3 Weep no more my la - dy, oh weep no more to - day
e|------------------------------------------------B|---------------------5-3,-----------------------G|------44-----4-5-4-5----------4---5-4-----------D|--5-7----5-7--------------5-7---5-----7-7-5-5---A|------------------------------------------------E|------------------------------------------------1-3 We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home, for the old Kentucky home, far a- way
