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As he felt inadequate to the task, he asked local fiddler Dan Kelley to help him set the poem to music. His neighbors took a liking to the song, and soon its fame spread. As people passed through, the song traveled with them, and by the turn of the century, it was variously known as Home On The Range, My Colorado Home, and My Arizona Home..
My Old Kentucky Home was written by Stephen Foster in 1852, years before the Civil War. Foster was an American composer, famous in part for his minstrel music. The characters he references â the ones who had to leave Kentucky â were slaves. In fact, My Old Kentucky Home was originally sold as an anti-slavery song.