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After its publication, it quickly became known as an 'unofficial theme of the Forty-Niners', with new lyrics about traveling to California with a ' washpan on my knee'.

No American song had sold more than 5,000 copies before 'Oh! Susanna' sold over 100,000. The song is not only one of Stephen Foster's best-known songs, but also one of the best-known American songs. It is one of the songs by Foster that use the word ' nigger' (others are 'Old Uncle Ned' and 'Oh! Lemuel', both also among Foster's early works), which appears in the second verse ('De lectric fluid magnified, And killed five hundred nigger.'). The song contains contradictory lines such as 'It rain'd all night the day I left, The weather it was dry, The sun so hot I froze to death.', which have been described as ' nonsense'. The first two phrases of the melody are based on the major pentatonic scale. Moreover, the story lines of both 'Oh! Susanna' and 'The Rose of Alabama' involve a lover going from one Deep Southern state to another with his banjo in search of his sweetheart, which suggests that Foster got the inspiration for his lyrics from Steele's song. He points out that the melody of the verse of 'Oh! Susanna' resembles that of 'Mary Blane', and the opening of the chorus of 'Oh! Susanna' is almost identical to that of 'Rose of Alabama'. Writer and musician Glenn Weiser suggests that the song incorporates elements of two previous compositions, both published in 1846: 'Mary Blane', by Billy Whitlock, and 'Rose of Alabama', by Silas S. The opening line refers to 'a banjo on my knee', but the song takes its beat from the polka, which had just reached the U.S. The song blends together a variety of musical traditions. Problems playing this file? See media help. Stephen Foster's 'Oh! Susanna' performed by the United States Navy Concert Band The name Susanna may refer to Foster's deceased sister Charlotte, whose middle name was Susannah. Foster earned just $100 ($2,774 in 2016 dollars ) for the song, but its popularity led the publishing firm Firth, Pond & Company to offer him a royalty rate of two cents per copy of sheet music sold, convincing him to become the first fully professional songwriter in the United States. As a result, it was copyrighted and published at least twenty-one times from February 25, 1848, through February 14, 1851.

Blackface minstrel troupes performed the work, and, as was common at the time, many registered the song for copyright under their own names. The song was first performed by a local quintet at a concert in Andrews' Eagle Ice Cream Saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 1847. While in Cincinnati, Foster wrote 'Oh! Susanna', possibly for his men's social club. In 1846, Stephen Foster moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became a bookkeeper with his brother's steamship company.

In fresh morning light i get on my knees not in a rush... lyrics