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Oh! SusannaStephen Foster 

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"Oh! Susanna" is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826-1864), first published in 1848. It is among the most popular American songs ever written.Foster wrote "Oh! Susanna" for his men's social club, and the song was first published by W. C. Peters & Co. in Cincinnati in 1848. Many minstreltroupes performed the work, and, as was common at the time, many registered the song for copyright under their own names. As a result, it was copyrighted and published at least 21 times from 1848 through 1851. Foster earned just $100 for the song, but its popularity led the publishing firmFirth, Pond & Company to offer him a royalty rate of two cents per copy of sheet music sold, convincing him to become America's first fully professional songwriter. The name Susanna may refer to Foster's deceased sister Charlotte, whose middle name was Susannah. The first two phrasesof the melody are based on the major pentatonic scale. The song is not only one of Stephen Foster's best-known songs, but also one of the best-known American songs in history. It's sheet music sales were a breakthrough -- no American song had sold more than 5,000 copies before;"Oh! Susanna" sold over 100,000. After its publication, it quickly became known as an "unofficial theme of the Forty-Niners", with new lyrics abouttraveling to California with a "washpan on my knee."

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2. I had a dream the other night,  when everything was still;  I thought I saw Susanna dear,  a comin' o'er the hill.  The buckwheat cake was in her mouth,  a tear was in her eye,  I said, "I'm coming from the south,

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3. I soon will be in New Orleans,  and then I'll look around,  and when I find Susanna,

I'll fall upon the ground.  But if I never find her,  I'm sure that I will die,  and when I'm dead and buried,

  Susanna, don't you cry.

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