Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

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DO THEY MISS ME AT HOME?
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OLD FOLKS AT HOME.
For its age, this is one of the best known songs in the world. Four hundred thousand copies of it were sold, and E. P. Christy, of minstrel fame, paid four hundred dollars for the privilege of having his name printed upon a single edition as its author and composer. The true author and composer was Stephen Collins Foster.
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