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>> Good afternoon.

We are here today to honor the life and the works of former Governor Martha Layne Collins, who served as the governor of the Commonwealth from 1983 to 1987.

We're gathered here at our old state capitol, where Governor Collins is the first governor to lie in state.

And I think what is 117 years, only 59 individuals have ever had the honor and the privilege of serving as governor of Kentucky.

Governor Collins holds the distinction of being both the first and, to this day, the only woman to serve the state.

In this capacity, the job of governor requires your best efforts every day.

And sometimes, as we've seen this week, in the most trying of times, each governor brings their own style, their own worldview, their own expertise to this office.

Governor Collins brought a lifetime shaped by deep engagement with Kentucky culture and her experiences in the classroom as a teacher in schools in Georgetown, Louisville, and Versailles.

A proud daughter of Shelby County, she was a graduate of Shelbyville High School and the University of Kentucky.

In 1959, she was crowned Kentucky Derby Queen.

About that time, she married her beloved husband, doctor Bill Collins, beginning a union that lasted more than 66 years.

Filled with love, children and grandchildren.

May her memory be a blessing to you all.

In the early 1970s, Governor Collins began her political journey by working for the former Governor Wendell Ford's campaign.

In the mid 70s, she helped guide massive changes in Kentucky's judicial system.

As the last elected clerk of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the first clerk for both the new Supreme Court of Kentucky and the Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

In 1979, she was elected lieutenant Governor.

And just like our current Lieutenant Governor, Jacqueline Coleman, then Lieutenant Governor, Collins brought her background and expertise as an educator to Frankfort to the job of governing.

After shattering the glass ceiling with her win as governor in 1983, Governor Collins shepherded a massive education reform package that brought widespread improvements to our kids.

She also created the Governor's School for the Arts and the Bluegrass State Games, while expanding the Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program.

The Governor's Scholars Program changed my life as a young man.

I stand here today as the first Governor Scholar to serve as governor, but I would not be standing here without that program and the investment of so many governors like Governor Collins.

So if you're like me and you attended public schools here in Kentucky, you owe Governor Collins a huge debt of gratitude for insisting on excellence and providing paths for all of us.

Maybe the biggest legacy of Governor's Collins tenure is perhaps landing the Toyota motor manufacturing plant in Georgetown.

Few partnerships can claim more widespread or impactful results for our Commonwealth and our people.

Throughout the decades that have followed, we've seen billions of dollars invested here, placing Kentucky at the head of the table for automotive and advanced manufacturing.

More important, the partnership has created tens of thousands of jobs.

Tens of thousands of Kentucky families are still thankful for Martha Layne Collins and the work she did as governor.

Governor Collins legacy of education and economic development excellence has been a North Star for every administration that's followed, including my own.

After leaving office, Governor Collins continued her life of service, first as president of Saint Catherine College, followed by positions at the UofL School of Business, UK Gatton College of Business and Economics, and Georgetown College.

Governor Collins also served on a variety of business and civic organization boards, and continued her education work as a board member of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence.

And if you were ambitious enough to think about running for governor, you had to go talk to Martha Layne Collins.

You had to get that advice, and you knew she was going to give it to you straight.

She was going to tell you about the ups and the downs of the job.

She was going to evaluate you as a candidate, but she did it all in her style, with kindness that I certainly was grateful for and still think about today.

Governor Collins led a groundbreaking life and career.

She was dedicated to building a better Kentucky for our people.

But we're all more than our professional titles.

Governor Collins yes, she was a leader in politics and in business, but she was also a wife and a mother, a grandmother, an aunt and a friend and a mentor to so many, to Doctor Collins, Steve, Mala and the entire family.

Please know we care about you, and if you'll let us, we'll carry just a little bit of your grief for the days, the weeks, the months and the years to come.

You look around and you see how impactful her life was, not just by this incredible place that that that she lies in state and in honor, but by the people from multiple generations that you see around you today impacted by such an amazing life.

We grieve even after a long life, lived so well because we love.

And while the body is mortal, I still believe the soul is eternal.

You'll see her again, and I know she wishes the very best for you in the days to come.

We thank former Governor Collins for her service to the Commonwealth.

We commend her for this amazing life, and we wrap our arms around this whole family, and we tell you we love her.

And we love you too.

Thank you.

>> When I was looking for a fitting poem to read today to honor my grandmother, I stumbled upon this poem called Success by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

And as I read more about the history of this poem, I found that it was actually written by a woman named Bessie Stanley, and had been frequently misattributed to Emerson over the years.

When I read that, I smiled because in my mind, I immediately pictured my grandmother rolling her eyes and saying yet again, a man getting credit for the hard work of a woman.

So it felt extra fitting.

What is success?

To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends.

To appreciate the beauty.

To find the best in others.

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

This is to have succeeded.

>> I, Larry Hayes, and I had the privilege and the great honor of being Secretary of the cabinet for Governor Collins, for her entire her entire career in the governor's office.

You know, it's one of those roles where every day and multiple times during the day, she's behind the desk in her chair, and I'm on the other side of the desk.

And sometimes that's a really neat place to be in other times, it's a really uncomfortable place to be.

You know, Governor Collins was the kind of person you heard about the accomplishments.

Well, they didn't come by themselves.

I mean, she really demanded a lot from the people, and I'm sure Marla and Steve would agree with that.

And I had the pleasure of meeting Miss Hall several times.

And the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

I can tell you, mister, miss Hall taught her how to.

You know, you need to do it and do it right.

You need to think of service for other people.

They were in a service business.

She had an amazing way of being able, at the worst of times, to be able to communicate with people in a way that impacted them in a very positive way.

I asked her one time we got on a plane.

We were coming back from Jesse Stewart's funeral, and I said, how do you I mean, I was uncomfortable, and I said, how do you manage to do that?

And she said, I grew up stairs in a funeral home, Steve.

And she said, you see, people years later, Steve Beshear said the same thing.

It is it is true.

Those people that have served, and she definitely felt like being in that governor's office at that point in time.

It wasn't a stepping stone to something else.

It was a way for her to be able to make Kentucky that she dearly loved a better place.

When we had, as soon as we had pictures taken on Inauguration Day with the people with the cabinet, we had senior staff and the cabinet secretaries in governors sitting behind her desk.

It was in her office.

I'm sitting over here on the right, facing this way.

The other people are here and she's going now.

I just want you all to know we only have 1460 some days to do this, because the governor could only serve one term.

And really, you need to get back to work today because every day is going to count.

And she was prodigious about, you know, working.

I mean, she carried this bag of stuff around and she would detour through my office some mornings.

I could hear her coming up the halls, because I was generally there pretty early, and she would detour and take that bag out, plop this stuff down, and she said, now you need to get some of that other stuff off your desk.

I said, governor, I would, but all your stuff is coming on my desk.

And she laughed and she said, well, that's your job, your secretary of the cabinet.

Now you decide where it goes.

She was a wonderful mentor.

She was a lady that, you know, I had no idea.

I never really thought about the difficulties that a woman as governor would have.

But for men coming in, I watched this time and time and time again.

You know, men had a difficult time dealing with and some women had a difficult time dealing with the woman sitting on the other side of the desk making decisions and so forth.

And I watched how gracefully she handled that.

But it became hilarious at times because legislators would come into my office and they would complain about something the governor did.

I said, well, go tell her, make, you know, make an appointment.

And they would go in and it would be like a kid that got called to the office.

And they would they would come back in and they would go, well, I never really had a chance to be able to say that.

And the governor would go, why don't they just say it?

I said, well, they don't know how to deal with the woman.

And, you know, she was a she was a team builder.

My wife said today, she said, you know, Governor Collins, there was no I in that, you know, and that's rather unusual for many politicians.

There was no I that was in that it was we, those of us that worked for her back then.

A lot of us were pretty young then and some had hair and whatever.

And, you know, this wasn't something that we grew up doing.

And knowing how to do this was something that we bonded together to try to.

We wanted her to succeed.

She knew how to nurture that.

You know, it was one of those things where you didn't have to she didn't have to tell people, you need to be there at 7:00 in the morning or whatever.

Everybody on that team and I saw them today.

I mean, Rusty Chevron almost brought me to tears.

Rusty, when you were saying she's responsible for the success that I look out here now and you have a lieutenant governor, you have other people that are, you know, have done great things in the Commonwealth, not just staying in government, not just staying in politics, but really contributors to the quality of life we have.

That's really because of her and her example.

And I mean, she didn't brook excuses.

You know, when you you had things and I guess Marla and Steve, you all probably know that look that every now and then we would get and every now and then I've actually seen a pencil fly across the desk.

I remember one legislator that came in and I was there, and he had made a promise to do something, something like that, and it was not exactly telling her the truth on something.

And they had a significant conversation, and tears welled up in his eyes, and I, I felt a little sorry for him.

And I said, well, I tried to interject at that point, and she turned and she goes, and you stay out of it.

I said, yes, ma'am, I'll stay out of it.

And, you know, for those people that thought that she couldn't be tough, she could she could really take a punch.

I mean, we knew when people were talking about she didn't want to debate when she was running for office, the last person that was going to make a mistake debating was her.

She wouldn't say anything if she wasn't sure that it was right, and we knew that.

But the other two candidates, they they kept wanting to make she's a woman and she hasn't done this job before.

Well, you know what?

They underestimated her in her entire career.

She got underestimated.

I think you take somebody who those of us that works for her.

We knew what she was like, and we knew how proud the average person when they came into contact with her.

She made them special.

But more than that, she made them proud that she was their governor.

She was unique.

She certainly had that that class and that ability to be able to communicate.

But, you know, in her first year, she became the second woman to chair a presidential convention.

And she was in San Francisco.

Tip O'Neill had been the the chairman the four years earlier.

So he was the honorary chair.

We had a meeting in the Fairmont Hotel up in tip O'Neill suite, and he he lined up all of the principals from the other campaigns because at the time you had Walter Mondale, you had Gary Hart.

And it's a name out of the past and Jesse Jackson.

So we had their representatives there, and he goes, now, guys, I'm going to play golf.

He said, Martha's got my, my, my, my vote to make decisions on anything that needs to be made.

I looked over there and I go, they're talking about us.

You know?

And he said, Now I'm going to leave.

And he got up and left, and we had to make every day we would have a meeting at 6:00 in the morning, and we would decide who was going to be in what time slot on television.

Of course, all the campaigns had different people that were benefactors of theirs that they wanted to put in there.

And, you know, we were a pretty smart group.

She had Mike ruling Nick Nicholson working with us.

There was Darryl Owens was working with us, and Darryl worked with the Jesse Jackson campaign.

And they had to tell you how smart we were.

There was a time slot.

This was in San Francisco, so there was a time slot that was in prime time here on the eastern part, and it's probably about 9:00 or so.

Then there was another prime spot or not so prime spot that would probably put it about 12:00, and we had to decide between the Democratic Leadership Conference chairman, who was a governor, or we needed to decide about the Democratic Governors Association chair, who was a governor.

And we said, governor.

She looked and she said, who do you think we ought to put where?

I don't know which one of us was so smart, but we go, well, what about the governor of Virginia?

The governor of Virginia was a former marine.

He was the Lyndon Johnson's son in law.

I mean, he was reputed to be a candidate for the Senate after his term expired.

He was an attractive guy, a Vietnam veteran.

She said, well, you think that's the best move?

We thought about it and we said, well, we could put the other governor in that other spot.

He's not going to like it.

But, you know, this would probably be best for you.

Well, the next day, Bill Clinton was really upset that he got that spot.

And that's a true story.

We were so smart in.

The governor looked at us and she said later, after all of this transpired, she said, you know, you remember that decision you made and you had me.

She said, I could have been the ambassador to Japan or something, you know, if he had to do that.

But, you know, I mean, it was she empowered us to be able to give her our best every day.

We weren't trying to say the things she wanted to hear.

We weren't saying she was not a person that took to if you walk in and you say, governor, you look nice today, she'd wonder what the hell is going on.

I mean, you know, she was she read the room far better than most people would ever give her credit.

She told me one time that comes from being a teacher.

She said, if you've ever been a teacher in the elementary schools, you know when Jimmy wears that shirt to school that day, you're going to have a tough day.

And she said, now, this one legislator who has some interesting clothes, when he would come in wearing one of those, she said, you know, it's going to be a rough day with that.

It is.

She was one of the most fascinating people.

And everywhere we went, people knew who the governor of Kentucky was, which was we were on a roll.

I mean, John Brown was governor.

People across the country knew who Kentucky's governor was then.

And we had a lot of things going.

The Toyota, when we came into office, the governor wanted to be known as the education governor.

When it was done, we hit the door and looked at the budget and governor, guess what I mean?

We had the worst possible time and we were having to make cuts everywhere in state government.

And you step back and you look at what was really not performing.

You know, we were on the cusp of coal was going away.

The, the the tax is not going to be coming in.

I mean, it's going to continue to decrease.

We looked at other industries around the state.

You used to have sewing factories across the state in small towns, employing two and 300 people, not paying high wages, but they had them.

The textile industry was going away.

Tobacco was going to be going away, she said.

We've got to do something.

And we made a concerted effort to we need to increase the manufacturing.

You know, it doesn't just need to be on the Ohio River and Louisville and whatever.

We need to try to spread that manufacturing out across the state.

About that same time, we knew that there was a Toyota project.

Toyota didn't know.

We knew and they didn't know we were here.

I mean, they had already sent their team in, and Kentucky wasn't on the list to be able to be seen.

So we could complain about that.

We asked our we have Jiro Hashimoto ran the office in Japan.

Governor Brown had hired him before and he did a great job, very much understood how they do business in Japan.

And Jiro said, well, they've already made the decision.

They they they won't change anything.

And the team was actually coming back to, to Japan to put together the final plans and make a decision on these sites that they had visited, thought about.

And the governor said, we got to figure out a way to be able to see if we can't get in front of them.

We looked up and the only operation they had was Toyota motor Sales in Long Beach, California, and they happened to have a guy named Yuki Togo, who was the president of Toyota motor sales and had come from Japan in a really high position.

And we said, well, why don't you call Yuki Togo and ask for his advice?

And I listened to the conversation, and the governor was he was taken.

We had sent him some information on the governor, and he was taken with talking to the governor of the Commonwealth, who was a woman.

And, you know, Japan just had their first woman prime minister.

They were not they were not they were not used to women being in roles in the rooms, making decisions on anything.

You know, the women were the ones that knocked on the door and came in and served tea.

She called and and he asked her a lot of different questions, and you could tell she was quite interested.

Come to find out, he said, well, my wife is Doctor Toyota's best friend.

And he said, tell me what you think you all can do for us over there, because he's going to ask you when you go.

And he said, well, governor said, well, just can you get us an appointment with the decision makers Toyota?

We got on a plane in a few days and we ended up we were in the boardroom of Toyota motor Corporation, doctor Toyota.

The president was sitting across the table from the governor and he was very kind, said, I talked to Yuki and he said, you all were interested, governor, I hated that we haven't been there.

And she said, well, we could come to you with a proposal.

And he goes, well.

And he looked down to this one gentleman who was Okuda, Mr.

Okuda.

And he said, who led the who's leading the search?

And he said, you think you could go back there and just spend a day or two?

And Okuda said, yes.

And the rest is history.

I watched how she developed that relationship with them, and we looked at when we went to Japan, Doctor Toyoda said.

Toyota said we need 1500 acres of free, flat land, and he wanted to be on I-65 or I-75.

We had nothing on I-75 and we had a much smaller site at a regional industrial park in Elizabethtown.

On I-65, he'd say, can you all do that?

We said, yeah, and, you know, the governor didn't miss a beat.

And we're walking out of there and she goes, now, how are we going to do that?

Well, here's where the partnership that Governor Collins always talked about.

She picks up the phone.

We found out who would be the railroad company that would serve the Georgetown area site north of Lexington.

We knew we needed to be north of Lexington.

And that's we didn't want to be in Lexington.

They didn't want to be in an urban area.

They wanted to be a little bit away.

So it was Norfolk Southern.

Ned Breathitt worked for Norfolk Southern.

He was the vice president.

She calls Governor Breathitt.

She said, you know, you could have a huge customer if you would just help us locate 1500 acres of flat land, he said.

Where?

And she said, right on I-75, somewhere a little north of Lexington.

Not in Lexington, not in Fayette County, but north of Lexington, he said, well, let me let me find out.

And the next thing we know, we had 12 land agents from the railroad that came in with all of their all of their maps, and they set up a war room in the Marriott.

And within a week they had options signed on all the land we needed to have but one little piece.

Now, we didn't have any money for options.

She called W.T.

young, who had a business group that had put together $1 million back then to help the state on economic development, she told him.

She said, you know, I need your money to be able to get options on property that I can't tell you about, but we need to be able to to pay for those.

I need to know we can do that.

They gave us the money to do it because we couldn't use state dollars for option in that property.

And lo and behold, it all worked out.

One problem we had was we didn't really have the authority to be able to give land away.

So we had to work, do a little work around on for those lawyers in the room.

We had to do a little work around on creating an economic.

Conveyance that really we we talked about what the assets were going to do, and it ended up going to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court said, yeah, you can do that.

And in this day and time, we would never have been able to pull that off, I think.

But, you know, back then nobody knew.

As far as they knew, we had the 1500 acres of flat land and we did.

And the rest is history.

She knew, because what intrigued her was Toyota was such a big company, and they had such a history that they had a they call it a keiretsu.

It's a all other suppliers were very Toyota suppliers, and they were going to locate somewhere in Kentucky, but not close to Toyota.

And the fact that she was going to be able to bring suppliers of 100, 200 employees to Lebanon, to Springfield, to you name it.

And you look at a map when she left the Japanese and business businesses that came to this state, and it was just amazing, you she demonstrated and she changed the economy.

And as the governor said, the trajectory of this, this state forevermore.

And where would we have been had we not had her at that point in time?

Because the rest of us, she was really the one with her personality and her ability to connect with some people and her ability to keep us working day and night, to find a way to do some of those things.

And her courage in taking the step.

You know, our lawyers weren't necessarily help on the strategy we had, and we had to kind of Chris laughing.

She knows what I'm talking about.

And, you know, we had to kind of not listen to that part of it because as she said, we've got to do this.

She saw that.

So that's been, you know, that's an amazing time.

And she's an amazing lady.

She was you know, I it's hard for me to believe when when I found out that and I got the phone call that she had died, I just really never thought of her that way.

I mean, it's she's had such an impact on us, and we've never really had Rusty and Amanda and everybody was on her staff.

We never really had a chance to tell her or never felt comfortable being that, you know, what she really meant to us personally in that.

But yet she would do things.

You're in Japan and you're in the middle of trying to finish the negotiations with Toyota, and she's buying a kimono to be able to give to somebody on the staff who just had a little girl.

She's buying something else for another staff person who has that, you know, that's the side you really didn't see, because a lot of times, I mean, it was all business.

It was all business until the last day when we would go to Japan.

She would challenge us.

You know, the food wasn't exactly what we were used to eating most of the time.

And we would go to some of those traditional Japanese meals that they would give us.

And I think they just caught some of it.

And, you know, we would look at each other.

We were just country boys from Kentucky.

And she would take the chopsticks, she would eat that.

And, you know, what are you going to do?

I mean, the governor's eating that, you know.

So so you do that.

So the last day when we finished that last meeting, we would go to Tony Roma's in Tokyo before we went and we would get those onion ring loafs and we would get ribs and the governor would go, we're going to Tony Roma's tonight.

And, you know, she was a marvelous person to work with.

She was she was a treasure for Kentucky, I think.

Had she not been governor at that time, we wouldn't have had the success that we've had.

And, you know, succeeding governors wouldn't have had the same opportunities that they had.

They would have had different ones.

But, you know, I think we all she's a treasure.

The memories that she's given us, our treasure that we need to keep and we need to hold dear what she would want to say if she was here is, you know, we need to stay engaged.

She called all of us at various times.

Some of us were laughing about it.

She'd call and she'd go, what are we going to do about this?

I mean, you know, 30 years after you worked for it was a lifetime commitment when you got that and you get that phone call and.

Well, what do you mean, governor?

And.

Well, what are what are you going to do about that?

And you just couldn't say, well, you know, we're not in a position to do anything.

You need to at least act like somebody needs to do something about that and go on.

She stayed engaged all the way to the end because she truly cared about making things better for people.

You know, we saw it time and time again, and you saw how people related to her.

I mean, she was I mean, they saw a different person than we saw sometimes with that.

I mean, she was.

It's it's hard to say, you know, how much she impacted on all of our lives that were there.

Mine certainly included by the trust that she gave us, the support she gave us.

You know, we didn't always make good decisions.

You know, if we had, she'd have been ambassador to Japan.

But but, you know, you moved on from that one to the next one.

And I think the sum total, we all have felt really good.

And we've treasured that experience in that time.

And, you know, we'll hold those memories forever and we'll also try to stay involved in things.

We can't just quit when things get bad.

She wouldn't do that.

She never did that.

So Bill, thanks for everything.

Bill got her interested in being in government.

She wouldn't be where she was if you hadn't been involved and encouraged her.

You and the kids, and you certainly have been great on the last chapter that we've had.

And she treasured her family.

You know, she was certainly a woman that was proud of each and every one.

I've heard about all the grandkids and where they are.

And so anyway, we we certainly I appreciate, you know, the opportunity to be able to talk about a very special lady and rusty me to, you know, it's hard to say goodbye to that.

I feel like that movie to sir With love, you know, and that song.

But she was special.

Thank you.

>> I invite you now, if you will, to open your hearts and minds with to me, with all that's holy and sacred in this world, as we offer our thanksgivings and gratitude for the life of Martha Layne Hall Collins.

Holy One, God of many names and known in many ways, be present with us in this hour, in this time, in this noble place.

Remind us that whatever our beliefs, there is a force of love moving through the universe that holds us fast and that will not let us go.

We know it in the love of family and neighbors.

We see it in the beauty of the earth.

We hear it in the wind and rain and falling leaves in the songs of joy.

We know that force of love in our lamentations of grief and sorrow.

Eternal God, we offer our heartfelt thanks for all the good examples of your servants who, having finished their course in faith, now rest in peace.

We give you thanks especially for Martha Layne Collins, for all that she was by nature and by grace, for all that she meant to her family and friends, for the great witness of her life, for her loyalty and love of family and this commonwealth, for her courage in offering her life in service to this Commonwealth, for the many ways in which she demonstrated to women and men the compassionate servant leadership that characterized not only her political life, but her work as an educator and role model for women here and across our nation.

For her kindness toward everyone she met and her concern for the well-being of all people throughout her long and fruitful life.

We ask that your grace be evident, be evident as we face once more the mystery of death.

Surround her family with your comfort and peace, and help us live as those who know how precious and beautiful this life can be, and guide us in our living that we may devote ourselves to usefulness, to healing and mending what is torn and broken, to the creation and preservation of beauty, and to the building of the kind of world where all persons are valued and all have opportunity and hope and love and meaning.

Maker of all.

We pray to you for all those we love, but see no longer.

Grant them your peace, and let light perpetual shine upon them.

So into your hands, oh merciful Savior, we commend your servant Martha Lane.

Acknowledge, we humbly beseech you, a sheep of your own fold, a lamb of your own flock, a sinner of your own redeeming.

Receive her into the arms of your mercy, and into the blessed rest of everlasting peace, and into the glorious company of the saints in light.

Amen.

And for our benediction, I've chosen this Franciscan blessing.

Although Martha Lane worked for the Dominican sisters at Saint Catherine, but it seemed that this Franciscan blessing would be appropriate for our time together today.

May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships so that you may live deeply into your heart.

May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people so that you may work for justice and freedom and peace.

And may God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and turn their pain to joy.

And may God bless you enough with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.

And the blessing of God, creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer, be with you now and forever.

Amen.

>> Shines bright on my old Kentucky home.

Tis summer, the people are given.

The glory.

Of ripe and the man in the bloom.

While the birds.

Make music all the day.

Though the young folks roll on the cabin floor.

All merry.

All happy and bright.

By and by.

Hard.

Time comes on us at all.

The my old Kentucky home.

Good night.

Willie.

No more my lady.

Oh!

You no more today.

We will see.

One song for my own Kentucky.

I all Kentucky home for away.

The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart.

With sorrow.

Where all was delight.

The time has come when we have.

To part.

The my old Kentucky home.

Good night.

No more, my lady.

All we no more today.

We will sing one song for my old Kentucky home.

For my old Kentucky home for away.

No more.

My lady.

Oh, we no more today.

We will sing one.

Song for my old Kentucky home.

For all my old Kentucky home.

For our.

A way.

>> For us.