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My Old Kentucky Home
Found in EverydaySongBook2.abc
from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
X: 211 T: My Old Kentucky Home C: Stephen C. Foster. R: "Rather slowly." %R: air, march B: "The Everyday Song Book", 1927 F: http://www.library.pitt.edu/happybirthday/pdf/The_Everyday_Song_Book.pdf Z: 2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 4/4 L: 1/8 K: G % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - B | B2 B2 G2 A B | c> B c e d2 zc/-c/ | w: 1.~The sun shines bright in the old Ken-tuck-y home, 'Tis* w: 2.~They hunt no more for the pos-sum and the coon, On the w: 3.~The head must bow and the back will have to bend, Where-* % B A zG G2 F> G | A6 zA | B2 B2 G2 A B | w: sum-mer, the dark-ies are gay; The core-top's ripe and the w: mead-ow, the hill and the shore; They sing no more by the w: ev-er the dark-ey may go; A few more days, and the % c> B c e d2 G> A | B2 B- B (A G) (B> A) | G6 z | w: mead-ow's in the bloom, While the birds make* mu-sic all the day; w: glim-mer of the moon, On the bench by the old* cab-in door; w: troub-le all will end, In the field where the sug-ar-canes* grow; % B | B2 B2 G2 A B | c> B c e d2 zc | B A zG w: The young folks roll on the lit-tle cab-in floor, All mer-ry, all w: The day goes by like a shad-ow o'er the heart, With sor-row where w: A few more days for to tote the wea-ry load,\-\- No mat-ter, 'twill % G2 F> G | A6 zD | B2 B2 G2 A B | c> B c e d2 | w: hap-py and bright; By'n-by hard times comes a-knock-ing at the door, w: all was de-light; The time has come when the dark-ies have to part, w: nev-er be light; A few more days till we tot-ter on the road, % G> A | B G c B A3 F | G6 z2 [| "Chorus:"d3 B c2 e2 | d B3 z2 | w: Then, my old Ken-tuck-y home, good-night! Weep no more, my la-dy, A2 | G3 A G2 E2 | G4 z2 G A | B2 B2 G2 A B | w: O weep no more to-day! We will sing one song for the c> B c e Hd2 G A | B> G c B "^rit."A2 A> F | G4 z2z |] w: old Ken-tuck-y home, For the old Ken-tuck-y home, far a-way. % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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