In The Stephen Foster Story, a play presented here in Bardstown, the story goes that Stephen wrote Old Folks at Home intending it to be a slow, mournful plantation song. It was used in the minstrel shows as a song-and-dance, fast snappy tune, causing Stephen much grief. (Then of course, or so the story presented here goes, he went on to write THE great plantation song, My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight!)

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