Oh! Susanna

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"Oh! Susanna" is a famous 19th-century American minstrel song by Stephen Foster that became one of the best-known songs in American folk and popular music.

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Oh! Susanna canonical 1
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Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century song
song
alsoKnownAs Oh Susanna NERFINISHED
Oh! Susannah NERFINISHED
associatedWithEvent California Gold Rush NERFINISHED
centuryOfOrigin 19th century
composer Stephen Foster NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstPerformanceYear 1847
genre American folk music
minstrel music
popular music
hasChorus Yes
hasCulturalRole unofficial American folk anthem
hasForm verse-chorus form
hasHistoricalSignificance early commercial American popular song
hasMeter 4/4 time
hasRecording multiple 20th-century commercial recordings
includedIn American folk song repertoire
influenced later American popular music
inPublicDomain Yes
language English
lyricist Stephen Foster NERFINISHED
openingLyric I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee
partOf Stephen Foster song catalog
performanceContext blackface minstrel shows
publicationYear 1848
sheetMusicPublishedIn United States NERFINISHED
subjectOf cultural criticism
musicological studies
theme American frontier
travel to Louisiana
usedAs American folk standard

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Stephen Foster notableWork Oh! Susanna
Sweet Baby James hasTrack Oh! Susanna
this entity surface form: Oh, Susannah