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  2. My Old Kentucky Home - Wikipedia

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    The song remained popular through the nineteenth century. The typical reduction of the song's title from "My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" to "My Old Kentucky Home" occurred after the turn of the century. [14] The song's first verse and chorus are recited annually at the Kentucky Derby. Colonel Matt Winn introduced the song as a Derby ...

  3. Sixteen Tons - Wikipedia

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    "Sixteen Tons" is a song written by Merle Travis about a coal miner, based on life in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. [2] Travis first recorded the song at the Radio Recorders Studio B in Hollywood, California , on August 8, 1946.

  4. The Hunters of Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    A hunter from Kentucky. Refrain: Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky! Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky! Alligators. We are a hardy, free-born race, Each man to fear a stranger; Whate'er the game, we join in chase, Despising toil and danger. And if a daring foe annoys, Whate'er his strength and forces, We'll show him that Kentucky boys Are ...

  5. In the Pines - Wikipedia

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    In her 1970 Ph.D. dissertation, Judith McCulloh found 160 permutations of the song. [9] As well as rearrangement of the three frequent elements, the person who goes into the pines, or who is decapitated, is described as a man, woman, adolescent, husband, wife, or parent, while the pines can be seen as representing sexuality , death , or loneliness.

  6. You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive - Wikipedia

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    Darrell Scott wrote the song in 1997 and recorded it on his debut album Aloha from Nashville. [1] The song is about the difficult lives of underground coal miners in Kentucky. Scott said the inspiration for the song came from a visit to Harlan County, Kentucky, in an attempt to research his own family history. While in a cemetery attempting to ...

  7. Music of Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    The Music of Kentucky is heavily centered on Appalachian folk music and its descendants, especially in eastern Kentucky. Bluegrass music is of particular regional importance; Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass music", was born in the Ohio County community of Rosine, and he named his band, the Blue Grass Boys, after the bluegrass state, i.e., Kentucky.

  8. More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.

  9. Napalm Sticks to Kids - Wikipedia

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    By the late 1980s, the "Napalm" cadence had been taught at training to all branches of the United States Armed Forces.Its verses delight in the application of superior US technology that rarely if ever actually hits the enemy: "the [singer] fiendishly narrates in first person one brutal scene after another: barbecued babies, burned orphans, and decapitated peasants in an almost cartoonlike ...