“Some Folks” was submitted for copyright deposit on June 28, 1855, by Firth, Pond, & Co.

According to Evelyn Foster Morneweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family:

Stephen’s lively little song, “Some Folks,” was copyrighted the same day as “Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming,” June 28, 1855. “Some Folks” had a great vogue; in addition, it was copied and parodied on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Forty to fifty years ago the air was used for a temperance hymn in English Sunday schools. Mrs. Ellen Galey, of Dearborn, Michigan, remembers how she used to sing “temperance words” to Stephen’s tune when she was a little girl in London. A song called “Some Folks,” with air credited properly to Stephen C. Foster, also appears in an American publication called The Sparkling Stream, A Collection of Temperance Melodies compiled by M. F. H. Smith. At least two early editions of this book were published in New York in 1866 and 1870.