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Thread #1777   Message #3565198
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
08-Oct-13 - 01:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Old Folks at Home (Stephen Foster)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Folks at Home (Stephen Foster)
A song called "Young Folks at Home," anon., was very popular in the late 1850s, according to a survey of songs at the time. No doubt inspired by Foster's "Old Folks at Home," but the melody is more like "Ring, Ring the Banjo," and is listed with that song in American Memory.
I will post the lyrics in the thread "Ring, Ring the Banjo."