Old Folks at Home

" Old Folks at Home ," even after the first line as " ( Way Down Upon the) Swanee River, " is a 1851 arisen song of the American composer Stephen Foster, which was first performed by the New York theater group Christy's Minstrels. The name of Edwin Pearce Christy, director of the theater group, appears at first Print as composer of the song: Edwin Christy paid Stephen Foster that he wanted to act as composer of the song in appearance. Though Stephen Foster regretted this decision later, he made the agreement is not reversed. Since 1935, Old Folks at Home is the official anthem of the U.S. state of Florida. However, it should be replaced by a new song during the year 2008.

According to legend, Foster had the greatest part of the song already written, but found it difficult to find a matching to the lyrics flow name. He asked his brother, to propose the first Yazoo River remembered that passes through Mississippi. Although Yazoo River was a perfect fit to the tune of Stephen Foster rejected this idea. The second proposal was the current flowing through South and North Carolina Pee Dee River, the Stephen Foster, however, just as little thought was suitable. Foster's brother then pulled an atlas to rate and then exclaimed: Suwannee, the proposal that Foster took. When writing down however, he underwent a spelling mistake, and the river was rendered as Swanee.

Stephen Foster has the Suwannee River never considered. However, the popularity of the song ensured that the banks of this river were regularly visited by tourists. The song quickly became popular. The popularity of the song can be, for example, judged that the American slaves opponent Harriet Tubman on the boy described in the song ( boy of Swanee River) refers to describe her homesickness, she felt when her owner it to other plantations lent.

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