Stephen Collins Foster was born on July fourth, eighteen twenty-six in what is now part of the city of Pittsburgh, in the northeastern state of Pennsylvania.

斯蒂芬·柯林斯·福斯特于1826年7月4日出生在现在属于宾夕法尼亚州东北部的匹兹堡市的一个地方。

The song was written in 1848 by someone who is called the father of American music, Stephen Collins Foster.

这首歌是 1848 年由被称为美国音乐之父的斯蒂芬·柯林斯·福斯特 (Stephen Collins Foster) 创作的。