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Thread #62198 Message #1004124
Posted By: Kim C
18-Aug-03 - 01:36 PM
Thread Name: My Old Kentucky Home problem
Subject: RE: My Old Kentucky Home problem
Mister and I have also faced this quandary, and here's what we do.
We play it as an instrumental. The melody is lovely, and people who know the words will sing along as they wish. Darkies aside, it's a long song with a lot of verses and it's sad.
I did ask a friend who is the education director at a historic site in Kentucky, if we could perform it as written. Her answer to me was, "It's an 1850 event and those are the 1850 words. If anyone has a problem with it, send 'em to me." Sometimes it just depends on where you are.
But for the reasons I mentioned above - we still did it as an instrumental.