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My Old Kentucky Home and the song
Bardstown, Kentucky
Firthpond1700 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Foster's cousins owned this house, and tradition says he wrote the song after visiting. He drafted it as an antislavery piece, its working title referenced Uncle Tom, about a man sold south and remembering home, which is not how it was sung for the next century. The state amended the lyric in 1986 and it is still played at the Derby.
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