My Old Kentucky Home
Public domain - full karaoke IMMHA-L147
Credit: Stephen Foster · 1853
Origin: Stephen Foster, published 1853. Public domain. Typed sheet, page 376 of a songbook.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Old_Kentucky_Home
Lyrics sheet: courtesy of Country Roads Folk Music Camp, Mount Madonna County Park, California (about the camp)
Original scan: from John's songbook (scan to be posted on @IMMHACAL)
Chords as printed on the original song sheet. The sheet marks chords as Roman numerals (I, I7, IV, II7, V7, VIm); shown here in G (I=G, I7=G7, IV=C, II7=A7, V7=D7, VIm=Em). Typed wording and typos kept as on the sheet; standard wording: 'young folks', 'merry, all happy and bright', 'By'n by', 'They hunt no more', 'On the meadow, the hill', 'The day goes by like a shadow', 'The time has come'.
G G7 C G The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home A7 D7 'Tis summer the people are gay G G7 C G The corn tops ripe and the meadows in bloom C G D7 G While the birds make music all the day. The yong folks roll on the little cabin floor All merry all heppy and birght B'y'n bye hard times comes a knocking at the door Then my old Kentucky home, good night. [Chorus] G C G Weep no more, my lady Em C G Oh, weep no more today G G7 C G We will sing one song for my old Kentucky home A7 G A7 D7 G For my old kentucky home far away They hun no more for the possum and the coon On meadow the hill and the shore They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon On the bench by the old cabin door The day oges by lie a shado o'er the heart With sorrow where all was delight They time ahs come when the people have to part Then my old Kentucky home good night.