====== #1101 - She was Bred in Old Kentucky ======
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  *Composer:
    *++Stanley Carter|{{search>"Stanley Carter" @cobs}}++, 1898
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
When a lad, I stood one day by a cottage far away,\\
And to me that day, all nature seem'd more grand;\\
For my Sue, with blushes red, had just promised we should wed,\\
And I'd come to ask her mother for her hand.\\
As I told the old, old tale, of a love that n'er would fail,\\
The grayhaired mother stroked her daughter's head,\\
And I fancied I could trace just a tear on her kind face,\\
As she placed my sweetheart's hand in mine and said,\\
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She was bred in old Kentucky,\\
Where the meadow grass is blue,\\
There's the sunshine of the country,\\
In her face and manner too;\\
She was bred in old Kentucky,\\
Take her boy, you're mighty lucky,\\
When you marry a girl like Sue.\\
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Many years have pass'd away since that well remember'd day,\\
When to that dear old Kentucky home I came;\\
And my happiness thro' life, was my sweetheart friend and wife,\\
For the sunshine in her heart remained the same.\\
I am sitting all alone, in the place we've long called home,\\
For yesterday my darling passed away;\\
Tho' in tears I think with joy of the day when but a oy,\\
That I took her hand and heard her mother say,\\
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    *++Harry Braisted|{{search>"Harry Braisted" @cobs}}++, 1898