Oh Susanna (Jeremy Rawson)

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(Posted 2014-06-12) CPDL #32252:

Editor: Jeremy Rawson (submitted 2014-06-12). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 80 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: Oh Susanna
Composer: Jeremy Rawson
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2014
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Original text and translations

English text

I come from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee
I'm going to Louisiana,
My true love for to see.

It rained all night the day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot, I froze to death
Susannah, don't you cry.

Oh, Susannah,
Oh don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee.

I had a dream the other night
When everything was still
I dreamed I saw Susannah dear
A-coming down the hill.

The buckwheat cake was in her mouth
The tear was in her eye
Says I, “I'm coming from the south,
Susannah, don't you cry.”