'Oh! Susanna' - American Folk Song [LYRICS]

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Description: "Oh! Susanna," written in 1847 and published in 1848, made Stephen Foster an instant success as a composer and launched his musical career. Inspired by blackface minstrel groups he encountered while working for his brother in Cincinnati, Foster wrote "Oh! Susanna" in the minstrel tradition. "Susanna" was published by Peters & Field, a local music store, but a New York publisher pirated the song, publishing it under the name E. P. Christy. The song quickly gained popularity by means of Christy's minstrels in Manhattan as well as a new polka fad sweeping the United States. "Oh! Susanna" is considered the first minstrel song to enter the middle-class market.

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[theamerican]

Best version of Oh Susanna, thanks for uploading this masterpiece.

[kingofgringos]

0:43 hmm, I wonder what the original lyrics would have been for them to have to change it...

[seronymus]

This was weird yet beautiful, especially the ending, I can't believe it lul

[Swissswoosher]

Best version I heard yet. Real epic and spine tingling!

[delishou]

0:36 i remember this part a bit differently...

[kazsolan]

Minor correction: To keep the rhyme, this version has "round the bend" instead of "down the river."

[paulpavlus]

1:30 I imagine both sides of the war coming together to put there differences aside in order to defeat a greater foe. A Giant Evil Robot Confederate General. And they all come together to pull it apart with Magnets and other Machine Damaging items.

[hitmanzirelli]

My mom hates the song because it's her name a running joke with my family in anybody that knows her she had to sing in an elementary school😂

[hungrymikepencetd]

Haha, they changed the text in 0:44, but the music plaid by the orchestra clearly articulates "something is weird/bad"...

[viini]

The original lyrics if you dont already know at 0:40 were
"De Lectric fluid magnified, And killed five hundred (Fine African-American Gentlemen)"
Back then they used the racial slur for those gentlemen that you can google yourself, I am not going to write that here lmao.

[John]

Well it hits different when you live the southern part of US

[emojinews]

0:40
Im Impressed that they changes the n word with five hundred men and some versions also included "chiggers" and "kittens" or "dogs"

[yoshii]

Lyric correction: fourth verse is actually
"If I do not find her then I'll surely die" not "if I do not find her no one will surely die"

[Wafflelad]

Who are the people singing the song in this video?

[betalr]

The south is a beautiful place, love that song

[nafFNAFSquirrelsquirrel]

The beginning sounds like something out of rdr2

[HigherQualityUploads]

A pity they didn't sing the original lyrics

[rabbiezekielgoldberg]

Now, now, we all know what word rhymes with _river_ and it certainly isn't _men_ .

[Eng.SalemAlaadh]

Where is the original video The original recording This is a composite video with audio over some photos

[r.t.]

where's the part of the black men and the electric line.