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I'll grant that lyrics like "Oh, the sun shines bright on my old New Jersey home..." or "Way down upon the Susquehanna / Far, far away..." don't have quite the ring as do Foster's originals. (I have no clue what to substitute for "Tennessee" in "Nelly Bly".)

So how do we get a guy from Pittsburgh who lived much of his life in Cincy and spent little time in the south to focus instead upon the cradle of America's industrial revolution, rather than on the would-be Confederacy?
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