Oh! Susanna Stephen Foster 哦，蘇珊娜 史蒂芬·福斯特 哦 苏珊娜 薩克斯風 サクソフォーン Play-Along【Kero MyPlay Saxophone】
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Oh! Susanna Stephen Foster
哦，蘇珊娜 史蒂芬·福斯特 哦，苏珊娜 史蒂芬·福斯特
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----- Oh! Susanna
I come from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee
Gonna Louisiana
Susanna for to see
It rained all night the day I left
The weather, it was dry
The sun so hot I froze myself
But Susanna, don't you cry
Oh, Susanna
Don't you cry for me
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 down that hill
A buck wheat cake was in her mouth
The tear was in her eye
She said I'm coming from the south
Susanna, don't you cry
Oh, Susanna
Don't you cry for me
I come from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee
哦，蘇珊娜，是由美國作曲家史蒂芬·福斯特於1847年所編寫的一首英文鄉村民謠，1848年發布，並曾經風靡全球。它不但是史蒂芬·福斯特所著的最有名的歌曲之一，也是歷史上最有名和最流行的美國歌曲之一。「哦，蘇珊娜」有時亦被視為兒歌。歌名中的「蘇珊娜」可能是史蒂芬·福斯特的姐姐，夏洛特·蘇珊娜·福斯特(Charlotte "Susanna" Foster, 1809-1829)，她在史蒂夫·福斯特三歲時病逝。
"**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. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
In 1846, Stephen Foster moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became a bookkeeper with his brother's steamship company. While in Cincinnati, Foster wrote "Oh! Susanna", possibly for his men's social club. 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. It was first published by W. C. Peters & Co. in Cincinnati in 1848. Blackface minstrel troupes 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 twenty-one times from February 25, 1848, through February 14, 1851. 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.
The name Susanna may refer to Foster's deceased sister Charlotte, whose middle name was Susannah.
The song blends together a variety of musical traditions. 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. from Europe. 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. Steele. 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". 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.
The first two phrases of the melody are based on the major pentatonic scale.
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". 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 is one of Stephen Foster's best-known songs, and it also is one of the best-known American songs. 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 about traveling to California with a "washpan on my knee". A traditional Pennsylvania Dutch version uses Foster's melody but replaces the lyrics entirely.