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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..
âMy Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!â was adopted by the state legislature as the Kentucky state song in 1928 and the lyrics updated in 1986. It was written by Stephen Foster in 1853 and is said to have been inspired by Federal Hill, the home of his Rowan cousins in Bardstown.