“Kentucky Babe,” an 1896 Song as Rendered by MuseScore

I’m still going through this book that I purchased at a used book sale during the Labor Day holiday weekend.

I recently finished putting another song through the open source sheet music program MuseScore called “Kentucky Babe.” I have to admit that the resulting melody is quite catchy to listen to even if the lyrics were, for some reason, written in this stereotypical African American slave dialect. I made a video about the song where I put up the lyrics so you can see what I mean.

The only information I have about the song, based on what I read in the book, is that it was a popular glee club number of 1896, the words were written by Richard Henry Buck and the music was written by Adam Geibel.