Old Folks at Home

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Old Folks at Home (1851)
by Stephen Foster

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'"Old Folks at Home" (also known as "Swanee River", "Swanee Ribber" [from the original lyrics], or "Suwannee River") is a minstrel song written by Stephen Foster in 1851. Since 1935 it has been the official state song of Florida, although in 2008 the original lyrics were expurgated. According to Joel Whitburn's "Pop Memories 1890-1954" (1986), "Old Folks at Home" was the best-selling sheet music song of the period, with over twenty million copies sold.' Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Versions of Old Folks at Home include:

"Old Folks at Home", song sheet (19th century).
"Swanee River" in The Riverside song book (1893).
"Old Folks at Home" in Poems That Every Child Should Know (1904).
"Old Folks at Home", in The One Hundred and One Best Songs (1915).
"Old Folks at Home", abbreviated version in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1917).

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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