Stephen Collins Foster, 1826-64, American songwriter and composer, was born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, now incorporated into Pittsburgh. Foster had little formal training but he gained his skills writing songs for the E.P. CHRISTY minstrel troupe. It was during the first five or six years of his married life that Stephen composed his finest songs:
I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee.
I'm goin' to Lou'siana my Susanna for to see.
It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry.
The sun so hot I froze to death, Susanna don't you cry.
(Chorus)
Oh, Susanna, oh don't you cry for me,
for I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee.
Oh, Susanna, 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 thought I saw Susanna a-coming done the hill.
The buckwheat cake was in her mouth, the tear was in her eye,
Say I, "I'm coming from the South, Susanna, don't you cry."
(Chorus)
Oh, Susanna, oh don't you cry for me,
for I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee.
Oh, Susanna, oh don't you cry for me,
for I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee.
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