Show HISTORY OF POPULAR BALLADS 1 AY down ond Far W wha my Is turn In ebber s de old stay ballad that was ever written In Is that I ISwan Old 1 nt Swan e Ribber or nome In spite of Its origIn ante bellum Ilay tho song has l proper Hald or nil that has hasso so o the ran cs ot time The hIstory oC the ballad hns 1 mel melancholy Stephen Fa Fater ter the of both the words musIc ot ia was born In Jul 4 U 6 the clay ot death those compatriots Ind LIke the Poe Foster was trail lonate and emo his lamp III carly nt the age of years He lite liS In tho early Ind I or negro minstrels his sOngS so popular that he his whole Ume to composing her 16 wrote more than Ion ti sao them 11 and JennIe LInd ald on orten ang audi audiences Swanee RIbber wall tho other Old Kentucky Horne In tho Cold Cold around Old Do Vay Down South Vo Missed You Old Joe and 1 Love Lies Dreaming Sw nce RIb more l the publisher than any song evel ten brought but to What haD strange Is while Foster was II northern man am hut little acquaInted most popular songs those of liCe Th great se secret cret of thc success of his sou bal ballads lads hll to oC and musical The celebrated diU lUb lUbber ber wall written on tho blinks or the In mado It II appearance In 1851 Arduous labor and the lite In New NewYork York was too much for con 1111 III toxicants tho 1 n to the As 0 resort he was sent to Florida In several months It was durinA this soJourn that 1 ter I hunting party to tho river where a can p was Cg and companion tor spent hIs lime tho old and It here thai tho son and tho musIc Here tho old Colka at while haired darl a by tho door strIpping corn cornand and shambling abo tho oM Dinah with 0 bandana on her Jocks familiar song Yet It IS rea peace of It nil were JUSt filled tho ot that touch Ins len lendel del air whIch has all the world to childhood at 1864 and lies burled In Alle Allegheny cemetery hIs his lowered Into tho to the his favorite eODS Old at Home |