Oh! Susanna
/ˌəʊ suˈzænə/
/ˌəʊ suˈzænə/
- a well-known US song written in 1848 by Stephen Foster. It became especially popular with the forty-niners who sang it on their way to look for gold in California. It ends: “Oh! Susanna, oh don't you cry for me;For I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee.”