"Nyquist won the race for three-year-old males"??? The Kentucky Derby is for 3 year olds, full stop – colts, geldings and fillies – males carry 126 pounds and females carry 121 pounds. Just because there were no fillies entered in 2016 doesn't change the race conditions. Jeesh! Twinspires you should know better.
God bless Kentucky today witch should have been the running of the Kentucky Derby but we’ll have to wait till September for the run for the roses and the drinks in and and to hear my old Kentucky home I so miss it today I was looking forward to the race today lots of emotion but we’ll see ya in September churchhilldowns.
as living in Kentucky i am devastated that they just announced that they are not singing it anymore because it is somehow rude because it talks about slavery and some people are offended. i get why they are but they weren’t all these years and now they are. im sitting here crying it is part of the biggest tradition ever and now it is going away.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Too many Radic-l L-ft W-ng Marx-st Mor-ns want to make everything about slavery and rac-sm to divide and separate our great Country. These same numbnuts give Senator Byrd(Ku Klux Klan member), Biden(fought civil rights legislation), and the rac-st Democr-t Party(fought abolition) a free ride! Stephen Collins Foster was not racist! His parents were major supporters and contributors to the Abolition Movement.
Every time I hear my old Kentucky home it makes the hair on the back of my head stand up .this is what American is all about the owners and the trainers working hard all year long to get hear to run for the roses I love the Kentucky derby .
Awesome- Hello from Newfoundland, Canada. One of the Sports events i never miss. Read somewhere that it's the oldest sporting event in North America, started in 1875. That's incorrect. The St. John's, Newfoundland Royal Regatta is the oldest-started in early 1800's.
Verse 1: The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home, ‘Tis summer, the darkies are gay; The corn-top’s ripe and the meadow’s in the bloom, While the birds make music all the day. The young folks roll on the little cabin floor, All merry, all happy and bright; By ‘n’ by Hard Times comes a-knocking at the door, Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight. Chorus: Weep no more my lady Oh! weep no more today! We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home, For the Old Kentucky Home far away. Verse 2: They hunt no more for the possum and the coon, On meadow, the hill and the shore, They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon, On the bench by the old cabin door. The day goes by like a shadow o’er the heart ,With sorrow, where all was delight, The time has come when the darkies have to part, Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight. Chorus Verse 3: The head must bow and the back will have to bend, Wherever the darky may go; A few more days, and the trouble all will end, In the field where the sugar-canes grow; A few more days for to tote the weary load, No matter, ’twill never be light; A few more days till we totter on the road, Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight. Chorus
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"Nyquist won the race for three-year-old males"??? The Kentucky Derby is for 3 year olds, full stop – colts, geldings and fillies – males carry 126 pounds and females carry 121 pounds. Just because there were no fillies entered in 2016 doesn't change the race conditions. Jeesh! Twinspires you should know better.
It’s a song about slavery
ケンタッキーダービーでこれ歌うんだ知らなかった。優駿6月号で知った
Jesus that was awful. It's like the band was conducted by a completely different conductor who insisted on playing it twice as fast.
ケンタッキーフライドチキンの歌だ
She was bred in Old Kentucky, but shes just a crumb down here.
One of my favorite songs. RIP Dick Enberg
Que momento!
God bless Kentucky today witch should have been the running of the Kentucky Derby but we’ll have to wait till September for the run for the roses and the drinks in and and to hear my old Kentucky home I so miss it today I was looking forward to the race today lots of emotion but we’ll see ya in September churchhilldowns.
Came here today to hear this. Missing you Kentucky Derby. Till September…
Just not May without this, the Indy 500, the Preakness, and the NBA and NHL playoffs. Thanks a lot, Covid.
It is a great song !
as living in Kentucky i am devastated that they just announced that they are not singing it anymore because it is somehow rude because it talks about slavery and some people are offended. i get why they are but they weren’t all these years and now they are. im sitting here crying it is part of the biggest tradition ever and now it is going away.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
2016
Part of what makes America great. I would love to be there in person just 1 time. On my bucket list.
Absolutely heartbroken our song was not played for OUR Derby😥
Activists and rioters trying to cancel an anti-slavery song because it's "racist".
correction 141st annual
Too many Radic-l L-ft W-ng Marx-st Mor-ns want to make everything about slavery and rac-sm to divide and separate our great Country.
These same numbnuts give Senator Byrd(Ku Klux Klan member), Biden(fought civil rights legislation), and the rac-st Democr-t Party(fought abolition) a free ride!
Stephen Collins Foster was not racist! His parents were major supporters and contributors to the Abolition Movement.
Being there and singing this is on my bucket list.
https://youtu.be/VIxPY4d6H08 25 2 years old 2021 road to the Kentucky Derby
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy
Psalm 33:12-14,18
BB rules
Nice melody but recently found out it was originally a song about a slave taken away from his famy.
Terrible band.
ケンタッキーダービー、本馬場入場でファンも歌うってのがいいね
日本の競馬はどんな層でも入場を拒まず良くも悪くも大歓声で盛り上がるのが良いし
欧米の競馬の祭典はドレスコーデで高貴な感じで競馬そのものの歴史や伝統を大切にしていて好き
"The Kentucky Derby? There is no an adjective able to describe its greatness"
Jose Gregorio Guillot
Venezuelan horse racing analyst and radio producer
"It ' s the best race of the country and perhaps of the world. If you win a race like the Kentucky Derby, what else can you ask for?"
John Charles "Jack" Van Berg
Hall of Fame Trainer
🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎
Greetings from Venezuela 🇻🇪
"¿El Derby de Kentucky? Aún no se ha creado un calificativo para describir su grandeza"
José Gregorio Guillot
Comentarista hípico y productor radial venezolano
"Es la mejor carrera del país y quizá del mundo. Si usted gana una carrera como el Derby de Kentucky ¿qué más puede pedir?"
John Charles "Jack" Van Berg
Entrenador del Salón de la Fama
🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎
Saludos desde Venezuela 🇻🇪
It's sacred, beautiful, moving and full of heart. Tears overflow.
From Japanese viewers
Stephen Foster's greatest song.
Does anyone know why this song is sung on Derby Day?
Apparently the big hats on ladies is part of the lovely tradition as well!
Not gonna lie, if I were there to hear that in person, I would probably cry
I'm from Louisville Kentucky my old Kentucky home is an old slave 😑 song. I can't be proud to be from here. It's an embarrassment 😳.
The sun shines bright, in my old Kentucky home🥺
Imagine Chris Stapleton does this song. Him and his guitar. Bring out your tissues.
Almost there America. Almost time to return home to Kentucky for Derby day!
Every time I hear my old Kentucky home it makes the hair on the back of my head stand up .this is what American is all about the owners and the trainers working hard all year long to get hear to run for the roses I love the Kentucky derby .
Awesome- Hello from Newfoundland, Canada. One of the Sports events i never miss. Read somewhere that it's the oldest sporting event in North America, started in 1875. That's incorrect. The St. John's, Newfoundland Royal Regatta is the oldest-started in early 1800's.
Screw NBC and their censors.
All those beautiful people and horses with a touching song always.
Me too , love tradition and this song but I'm not young so unlikely that will ever happen
THEY DID NOT POST THE LYRICS
No one is singing as they don’t know the words….
If you will go to Baliwag, Bulacan in the Philippines, try to sing this song…this is their "National Anthem" in that City.
ケンタッキーにはエルコンドルパサーを始めとするグラスワンダーヒシアマゾンにタイキシャトルの故郷として有名です
They changed the words!
Here are the REAL LYRICS:
Verse 1:
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home, ‘Tis summer, the darkies are gay; The corn-top’s ripe and the meadow’s in the bloom, While the birds make music all the day. The young folks roll on the little cabin floor, All merry, all happy and bright; By ‘n’ by Hard Times comes a-knocking at the door, Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
Chorus:
Weep no more my lady Oh! weep no more today! We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home, For the Old Kentucky Home far away.
Verse 2:
They hunt no more for the possum and the coon, On meadow, the hill and the shore, They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon, On the bench by the old cabin door. The day goes by like a shadow o’er the heart ,With sorrow, where all was delight, The time has come when the darkies have to part, Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
Chorus Verse 3: The head must bow and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the darky may go; A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
In the field where the sugar-canes grow; A few more days for to tote the weary load, No matter, ’twill never be light; A few more days till we totter on the road, Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
Chorus
Always felt like Kentucky is Virginia's little sister.
My old Kentucky home and back home again in Indiana, played right before the start of the Indianapolis 500. Our the greatest.